The Irish National Heritage Park: Nine Thousand Years at Ferrycarrig
Wexford, Ireland
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The Irish National Heritage Park: Nine Thousand Years at Ferrycarrig
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The Irish National Heritage Park at Ferrycarrig, near Wexford, opened in 1987 and tells the story of settlement in Ireland from the Mesolithic to the Norman invasion of 1169, with sixteen reconstructed dwellings across 34 acres of parkland, estuary trails and wet woodland: a Mesolithic camp, a Neolithic farmstead, a portal dolmen, a stone circle, a ringfort, a monastic site, a crannóg and a Viking harbour, where the guided tour of about an hour and a half ends. On the hill of Carrig above the Slaney is a real excavation: the site of one of the first Norman fortifications in Ireland.
Required Activities
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of 4
Take the guided tour from the Mesolithic camp to the Viking harbour
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of 4
Go inside the crannóg and work out why anyone would build a house in a lake
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of 4
Find the excavation on the hill of Carrig, one of the first Norman forts in Ireland
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of 4
Walk the estuary trail along the Slaney
Take the guided tour from the Mesolithic camp to the Viking harbour
Go inside the crannóg and work out why anyone would build a house in a lake
Find the excavation on the hill of Carrig, one of the first Norman forts in Ireland
Walk the estuary trail along the Slaney
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