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Substantial remains of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1182 and dissolved in 1536. There's also a museum and a yew hedge maze, buy the combi ticket for these.
Dunbrody Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in County Wexford, Ireland. The cross-shaped church was built in the 13th century, and the tower was added in the 15th century. With a length of 59m the church was one of the longest in Ireland. The visitor centre is run by the current Marquess of Donegall and has one of only two full sized hedge mazes in Ireland.
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250 hectare park with 4500 species of trees and shrubs, dogs welcome. It was planned as a memorial after his assassination, and opened in 1968.
This farm was the birthplace in 1823 of Patrick Kennedy, the great-grandfather of US President John F Kennedy (1917-1963). Patrick emigrated to Boston in 1848 and married Bridget Murphy, also from New Ross. The family were almost wiped out by cholera, but one son Patrick Joseph Kennedy survived to become a US businessman and politician, and to found a dynasty. The family still farm here, and JFK came to have tea with them in 1963.
This vessel is a three-masted barque, a 2001 replica of the original Dunbrody. That barque built 1845 carried many thousands away to North America in the famine years. It was considered a good vessel as few passengers died - many would be already moribund from starvation and disease when they boarded. A typical "coffin ship" of that era could suffer 50% mortality. The ship is permanently moored and you visit by guided tour, then view the museum of the emigrant experience in your own time. The original ship was converted to freight after 1851, but sank off Labrador in 1875.