Discover Wexford Town
Your Complete Guide to Wexford Town, Ireland
Where To Eat
From fine dining seafood to fish and chips by the harbour
La Côte Seafood Restaurant
Elegant seafood restaurant on Custom House Quay, dinner Tuesday to Saturday.
Restaurant
Simon Lambert & Sons
Simon Lambert & Sons
Gastropub and brewery on South Main Street, generous portions, relaxed atmosphere.
The Sky and the Ground
Traditional South Main Street pub with live music and a heated beer garden.
What's On
Upcoming events and things happening in Wexford Town
The Bullring Market
RecurringWeekly Friday market in the historic Bullring square.
Wexford Festival Opera
RecurringIreland's international opera festival at the National Opera House, staging rare and neglected operas every October.
Wexford Spiegeltent Festival
RecurringLive music and comedy in a Spiegeltent on Wexford Quay, running alongside the opera festival each October.
Wexford Christmas Lights Switch-On
RecurringAnnual Christmas lights switch-on along Main Street, late November.
Wexford Town Right Now
Wexford sits in Ireland's south-east, a region long nicknamed the Sunny South East, though that is a regional reputation rather than a guarantee. Pack for a mild but changeable coastal climate: a waterproof layer for sudden showers off the harbour, and something warm for the wind along Crescent Quay even on a bright day.
🚆 InterCity from Wexford (O'Hanrahan)
Iarnród Éireann InterCity departures
InterCity service from Wexford (O'Hanrahan). Updates every minute.
🌊 Tides
Wexford Town Harbour
Heights relative to chart datum
A Viking street plan you can still walk today
Wexford's Main Street is not a reconstruction. It is the same curving line the Norse settlers laid out along the old waterline around 800 AD, and the laneways still drop down to the quay exactly where they always did. Selskar Abbey, the Bullring, and the surviving Westgate tower sit within a few minutes' walk of each other at the north end of town.
The town is also a working harbour, a county capital, and, for two and a half weeks every October, one of the more unusual stops on the international opera calendar. Wexford Festival Opera has spent seventy-five years staging works that other houses pass over, and the town's pubs, restaurants and streets fill up accordingly.