Enniscorthy Itineraries
Half a day or a full weekend. Here are the best ways to spend your time in Enniscorthy, planned step by step.
Whether you have a few hours off the train or a full weekend to explore, these itineraries give you a local’s route through Enniscorthy. Each one links directly to the restaurants and activities along the way.
Half a day: the castle and Vinegar Hill
For an afternoon off the train or a stop on the way to or from Rosslare. It stays on foot: the castle on one bank, the battlefield on the other, and lunch in between.
- 112:00·45 minutes
Enniscorthy Castle
Open from noon at weekends and half nine on weekdays. Do the three floors, find the swordsman cut into the dungeon wall, and finish on the roof looking across the Slaney at Vinegar Hill. The lift is out of order, so it is stairs to the top.
View Enniscorthy Castle - 213:00·1 hour
Lunch on Barrack Street
The Bailey serves lunch from noon every day and is a couple of minutes from the castle.
View The Bailey Bar & Eatery - 314:15·1 hour 45 minutes there and back
Walk over the river and up Vinegar Hill
Down to Abbey Square, over the Seamus Rafter Bridge and up through Templeshannon to the car park and the paved path to the windmill. About 2.3 kilometres each way.
View Vinegar Hill - 416:15·30 minutes
Coffee by the old bridge
Back down to Slaney Place for a coffee at Impresso before the station, which is a few minutes away across the river.
View Impresso Café
A full day: 1798, the cathedral and dinner on Weafer Street
A day in town from Wednesday to Saturday, when the farm and Via Veneto are both open. Saturday adds the farmers' market; you will need a car or a taxi for the strawberry farm.
- 109:30·1 hour
Saturday market or the castle
On a Saturday, start at the farmers' market at Abbey Square, which opens at nine. On a weekday, go straight into the castle, which opens at half nine.
View Enniscorthy Castle - 210:45·1 hour 30 minutes
Vinegar Hill
Walk over the Seamus Rafter Bridge and up to the windmill, or drive to the free car park at the foot of the hill and take the paved path up.
View Vinegar Hill - 3
- 413:45·30 minutes
St Aidan's Cathedral
Up the hill to Pugin's cathedral on Cathedral Street. Mass is in the morning, so the afternoon is quiet.
View St Aidan's Cathedral - 514:45·1 hour 15 minutes
Strawberries at Wheelocks
Drive out to the Village at Wheelocks, about three and a half kilometres east. From May to October, pick your own strawberries; all year, the farm shop and the woodland walk. It closes at four.
View The Village at Wheelocks - 616:30·30 minutes
Check the Presentation Arts Centre
Back in town, look in at the foyer exhibition in the old convent chapel on Convent Road, if the centre is open, and see what is on that night.
View The Presentation Arts Centre - 718:00·2 hours
Dinner at Via Veneto
Book by phone or email. Open from half five on Wednesday to Saturday.
View Via Veneto
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