Battlestown Cross Roads

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Tintern Abbey

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Tintern Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland. The Abbey – which is today in ruins, some of which have been restored – was founded in c.1200 by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as the result of a vow he had made when his boat was caught in a storm nearby. Tintern Abbey is situated 2½ km northeast of Battlestown Cross Roads.

Colclough Walled Garden

Garden

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Tintern Church and Graveyard, Wexford

Ruins

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Tintern Church and Graveyard, Wexford is a ruins, which is situated 3 km northeast of Battlestown Cross Roads.

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Saltmills

Village

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Saltmills is a small village located in the south-west of County Wexford, in Ireland. The village is located at the head of a small inlet that enters Bannow Bay. The village received its name from the medieval mills that existed just outside the village. Saltmills is situated 2½ km east of Battlestown Cross Roads.

Fethard-on-Sea

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Fethard-on-Sea is a village on the coast of County Wexford in Ireland. With a population in 2022 of 363, it's the largest of the villages on Hook Peninsula, also described here. They include Saltmines, Duncannon and Ballyhack.

Duncannon

Village

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Duncannon is a village in southwest County Wexford, Ireland. Bordered to the west by Waterford harbour and sitting on a rocky headland jutting into the channel is the strategically prominent Duncannon Fort which dominates the village. Duncannon is situated 4½ km west of Battlestown Cross Roads.

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