Most of what this list holds is wild rather than planted. Ballyteige Burrow runs five kilometres of sand dune west of Kilmore Quay, a national nature reserve since 1987 covering high dunes, salt-marsh, mudflats and a sheltered lagoon, with a 4.5km waymarked loop. The strand has strong currents, so it draws walkers and anglers rather than swimmers. The Raven, at Curracloe, is the gentler walk: a flat, well-surfaced loop through pines planted on an old sand spit, ending on shell sand.
Winter birds are the reason to time a visit rather than just turn up. The North Slob was walled off from Wexford Harbour in the 1840s and sits two metres below sea level; each winter it fills with 8,000 to 10,000 Greenland white-fronted geese, about a third of the world population, watched from the hides, observation tower and visitor centre of the Wexford Wildfowl Reserve. October to March is the window.
For gardens in the ordinary sense, Wells House at Ballyedmond, up in the north of the county, has cascading terraces laid out in the 1830s by Daniel Robertson, the architect behind Powerscourt, on a 480-acre estate with woodland trails, an animal farm and falconry. The Irish National Heritage Park at Ferrycarrig, on the banks of the Slaney, is the closest of these to Wexford town.
Robertson-designed terraces on a 480-acre estate, with Gruffalo and fairy trails, an animal farm and costumed house tours pulling around 100,000 visitors a year.
Five kilometres of protected dune west of Kilmore Quay, better suited to walking and angling than swimming, with an estuary holding the Irish flounder record.
Flat, well-surfaced woodland loop out to the shell-sand shore at Curracloe, and a winter roost for roughly a third of the world's Greenland white-fronted geese.
A 227-hectare national nature reserve of dunes, salt-marsh and lagoon with a 4.5km waymarked loop, rare plants and wintering Brent geese.
Sixteen life-size reconstructions on the Slaney at Ferrycarrig, spanning the Mesolithic to the Normans, with costumed interpreters and a falconry centre.
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Ballyedmond, wexford
Wells House & Gardens spreads over 480 acres outside the village of Ballyedmond, with gardens designed by Daniel Robertson, the architect behind Powerscourt's terraces. It's built around a family day out: Gruffalo and fairy trails through the woods, an animal farm and playground, and costumed tours of the Victorian house. Around 100,000 people come each year.
Ballyteige Bay, wexford
Ballyteige Burrow is a protected five-kilometre dune system on the south Wexford coast, west of Kilmore Quay. It draws walkers and anglers rather than swimmers, with strong currents along the strand, an internationally important habitat, and an estuary that holds the Irish flounder record.
Curracloe, wexford
A flat, well-surfaced loop through pine woods planted on an old sand spit, ending at the shell-sand shore of Curracloe. In winter it holds around a third of the world’s Greenland white-fronted geese, which roost on the sand bars at dusk.
Kilmore Quay, wexford
Ferrycarrig, wexford
Wexford Harbour, wexford
Ballyedmond, wexford
North Slob, wexford
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