Irish National Heritage Park & Hook Peninsula Drive
Irish National Heritage Park & Hook Peninsula Drive
Today, you will explore the immersive Irish National Heritage Park before enjoying a scenic drive around the dramatic Hook Peninsula and the quaint fishing village of Ballyhack.
Cross the estuary by ferry to arrive at Faithlegg House or Dunbrody Country House, where you’ll spend two nights in luxurious comfort, perfectly positioned for discovering Ireland’s southeastern treasures.
Irish National Heritage Park. The Irish National Heritage Park is an open-air museum near Wexford, Ireland, which tells the story of human settlement in Ireland from the Mesolithic period up to the Norman Invasion in 1169. It was opened to the public in 1987. The park contains 16 reconstructed dwellings, including a Mesolithic camp, a Neolithic farmstead, a portal dolmen, a cyst grave, a stone circle, a medieval ringfort, a monastic site, crannóg, and a Viking harbour. It covers 13.7 hectares (34 acres) of parkland, estuary trails, and wetland forest.