HOOK HIGHLIGHTS BUS TOUR LAUNCHED

THE Hook Highlights Bus Tour was launched last week by Heritage Tours Wexford, offering customers the chance to experience some of the best tourist attractions south Wexford has to offer.

The thrice-weekly tour is now up and running, leaving from the Wexford Tourist Office on Crescent Quay every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9 a.m. returning at 5 p.m.

The tour will take you to the Quayside of New Ross for a guided tour of the Dunbrody Famine Ship where the harshness of conditions and life of the voyage will be explained.

For the months of May, June, September and October tourists be brought to Tintern Abbey. Founded in 1200 it is an evocative piece of Irish monastic history, where you will get a 45-minute guided tour of why it is referred to as Tintern of the Vow.

For July and August only Hook Highlights Tour will bring you to Ireland’s most haunted house of Loftus Hall. The tour guide will take you through the ground floor on an interactive tour of the abandoned house.

The final stop of the bus tour will be Hook Lighthouse where you can climb to the balcony of the worlds oldest working lighthouse. Tour price of €50 includes peninsula is the jewel in the crown of entrance fees and guided tours of all Ireland’s Ancient East. It has the story of locations mentioned. ancient Ireland written on its landscape,

According to Fáilte Ireland statistics be it a castle or an abbey, their continued in 2015, of all the visitors to South East presence is a reminder of what went on Ireland 27 per cent did not hire a car. before us.’ Responding to the gap in the market Heritage Tours Wexford is a welcome Heritage Tours Wexford decided to boast to the tourism industry in the facilitate this clear requirement for county who also offer tours of the South visitors to Wexford, ensuring that East including Wicklow, Waterford, there is an opportunity to visit these Kilkenny and Carlow. tourist attractions, complete with a For more information visit www. guided tour. heritagetourswexford.ie or call Cathy

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At the launch of Wexford Heritage Tours by Brendan Howlin TD on Wexford Quay were Kathleen Kinsella, Tintern Abbey;, Cathy Keane, Heritage Tours Wexford; Carmel Rowe, Dunbrody Visitors Centre; Angela Keogh, Heritage Tours Wexford; Brendan Howlin TD;...