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61f. Fethard Castle SCENES from Southeast IRELAND The RING OF HOOK - places to visit - The Hook Peninsula, County Wexford Fethard Castle After the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in Ireland in 1169 the district around Fethard was granted to a knight called Hervey de Montmorency. He then granted the land to Christ Church, Canterbury, England.
In AD 1200 Canterbury ordered the building
of Fethard Castle. However, the Bishop of Ferns, who owned the land in
pre-Norman times, successfully contested ownership of the Fethard lands.
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Fethard Castle: A 12th century castle on this site seems to have been a traditional motte-and-bailey type as a low earthen mound survives behind the castle. The present castle dates mainly from the 15th century, courtesy of the Bishop of ferns, and is in reality a fortified house.
Fethard Castle: The tall cylindrical bell-tower has a bottle dungeon on the ground floor, possibly known as 'Gadde's Black Pit' used by the bishop in the 16th century as a prison. The tower is crowned with the remains of machicolated battlements.
Fethard Castle: In the early 17th century Fethard Castle and estates passed to members of the Loftus family who lived there before moving to Loftus Hall on the Hook peninsula. Fethard Castle is much altered and occupied by tenants of the Loftus estate and was only finally abandoned as late as 1922.
Fethard Castle: Was this part of the kitchen or undercroft of Fethard Castle? Fethard-on-Sea or Fethard (Irish: Fiodh Ard, meaning "high wood"), is a village in southwest County Wexford in Ireland. It lies on the R734 road on the eastern side of the Hook peninsula, between Waterford Harbour and Bannow Bay. The village has a population of 311. It lies in the Fethard electoral district in the Wexford constituency. It is in the Templetown parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns. Its main industries are fishing and tourism. In the past, Fethard was a place of some importance. It was a site of Norman landings during the Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century. The remains of Norman-era earthworks and fortifications may be seen at Baginbun Bay, south of Ingard Point. A 12th-century castle was built by Raymond le Gros, which passed to the Bishop of Ferns and was used as an episcopal residence. There is little evidence of the castle today. Alexander Devereux, the 16th-century bishop of Ferns and Abbot of Dunbrody, is buried in St. Mogue's Church (Church of Ireland). Fethard was granted a charter by James I of England and became a municipal borough, sending two members to the Irish parliament, before its dissolution. In 1798 a harbour was built and was a landing site for French troops during the revolutionary wars. Fethard-on-Sea was originally called Fethard but the name was changed following drownings at sea when the lifeboat Helen Blake capsized in 1914 on a service mission to the schooner Mexico off the Keeragh Islands. Nine of the lifeboat crew were drowned and five survived. There was an outpouring of sympathy for the village and money came in from around the world, however, a lot of it ended up in Fethard, County Tipperary, so the name of the Fethard in Wexford was changed to distinguish it. The Fethard-on-Sea boycott- In May 1957, Roman Catholic villagers boycotted Protestant-owned local businesses in response to the actions of a Protestant woman, Sheila Cloney, who left her Catholic husband, and took her children away to avoid being forced to send them to the local Catholic school as the local Catholic priest demanded. The boycott received national and international attention before it concluded. The family was reconciled eventually, with the daughters being home-schooled. 61a. Ballyhack and the Passage East Ferry 61b. Templetown 61c. Hook Head and Hook Lighthouse 61d. Slade Castle and Slade Harbour 61e. Baginbun Beach 61f. Fethard Castle 61g. Tintern Abbey, Saltmills 61h. 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