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Nineteenth-century Wexford prison records show a man sentenced to four days for throwing a weight with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, while children as young as seven were detained as ‘strolling vagrants.’
The tower house at Ferrycarrig is a 15th-century Norman fortification built by the Roche family to protect the River Slaney ferry. It is one of the few Irish tower houses built for military purposes, featuring gun loops and a murder hole.
Wexford Gaol opened in 1812 and served as a prison, reformatory, and military barracks before its conversion into council offices.
Yola was a dialect of Middle English spoken in south County Wexford until the mid-1880s. Its last known speaker died in 1998, but some words such as ‘quare’ remain in use today.