Re-enactors bring colour to local heritage event
MEMBERS of Enniscorthy Historical Re-enactment Society (EHRS) travelled to the National Heritage Park recently to be part of an event focusing attention on ‘ the lost town of Carrick’.
The event coincided with the launch of a new book based on the research and results of excavations on the lost Norman town of Carrick which was built in the year 1169.
The town was founded by one of the first Norman knights to land at Bannow Bay, Robert Fitzstephen.
The field study team on the project was led by the Director of the Irish Archaeology Field School, Denis Shine.
The lost town site of Carrick is the oldest Anglo Norman fortification in the country and as such is a very valuable historic site.
The members of the Enniscorthy Historical Re-enactment Society were delighted to be invited by the National Heritage Park manager, Maura Bell, to bring colour and pageantry to the Norman 850 two-day conference.
The book, which was launched during the conference, is a detailed hand-written account of the project to-date .
It provides a great insight into the history of the town as well as project details.
Those in attendance at the launch were also informed that the late Billy Colfer’s excellent history of the Normans in Wexford – ‘Arrogant Trespass’, is to be relaunched.
‘Enniscorthy Historical Re-enactment Society was delighted to be invited by Maura Bell to add colour and pageantry to the occasion in full Norman regalia,’ said a spokesperson for the society.