Wexford Chronicles

The cottages in Carcur date back to the 1870s. They were reportedly constructed for local fishermen and railwaymen.

The Paupers’ graveyard was established in the early 1850s as a cemetery for the Wexford Union Workhouse. It served as the final resting place for the poor and destitute who died within its walls.

Croke Avenue in Wexford Town was condemned and demolished in the late 1980s before being rebuilt nearby and winning a national design award in 1996.

On Saturday, the 23rd of March, 1916, a traveller woman called Barbara Berry was fatally stabbed in the heart on Wexford’s Main Street.

On the 10th of July, 1931, a 65-year-old woman called Elizabeth Reck was savagely beaten to death near her home in Castlebridge, Co. Wexford.

Newsagent William Hannan, 65, was found beaten at his Cinema Lane shop on 8 March 1958 and died the following morning. The murder remains unsolved.

In May 1910, Simon Bloom murdered 18-year-old Mary Anne Wildes in his apartment above a bar in Wexford Town. Declared insane, he was confined to Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum and later emigrated to Chicago under a new identity.

County Wexford’s ghost stories span centuries, from a 12th-century legend of indestructible teals at St. Colman’s Church to a modern paranormal investigation at Enniscorthy Castle.

The origins of the name ‘The Folly’ in Wexford Town are uncertain. It may be linked to Mount Folly, a Georgian house built in the early 1800s, but whether the house or the area was named first is unknown.