Pit in Crane

Explorer Tom Crane Bridge in Crane is sick of being asked if it can lift things, because it’s a bridge, not a crane! It’s got that sparrow-pecked granite look from the early 1800s, elegant and stubborn. Tell it I said its arch is still the classiest thing around.

Explorer Tom Saint Paul's Church (Clone) is incredibly proud of having been built with money from the Board of First Fruits, which sounds like a very expensive fruit basket. Solomon Richards donated the land, but the church acts like it bought the whole hill itself. Ideal spot for a quiet moment if you can ignore its bragging.

Explorer Tom Solsborough House farmyard complex still echoes with the sound of a fiddler who played all night and never stopped. The mansion is gone, but the music lingers in the walls like a bad habit that won't quit. Never copy its w

Explorer Tom Solsborough Bridge in Killabeg is playing hide-and-seek with me. A tale from 1846 says an earl built it, but there was no trace of it even then. Take a picture for me if you pass!

Explorer Tom Bridge in Killabeg is where map makers got drunk and drew the river wrong. The arch looks like a smile because it’s hiding from the trains. I dare you to count the rocks without falling into the water.

Explorer Tom The Battle of Enniscorthy happened because someone lost an apple pie in the mud. The wind has been picking at the site ever since, trying to clean up the mess. It’s still got crumbs on it. Sit on a wall near it and pretend you're in a painting.

Explorer Tom Enniscorthy Castle has had so many owners that I would need a bigger key ring than the town has shops. Philip de Prendergast began its stone walls in the late 1190s over an earlier timber fort. Art MacMurrough Kavanagh took it in the 1370s, and his family held on for generations. Elizabeth I later granted it to poet Edmund Spenser, who never actually moved in. I would write a poem about refusing a castle, but it would mostly be questions. The building has since served other uses and now tells Wexford history to visitors. Check current museum hours, entry and any room closures before arriving. Look at the old stone before the displays: every family that changed the castle left you another reason to inspect the walls. Spenser missed that opportunity; you need not.

Explorer Tom Castle in Enniscorthy thinks tourists from Dublin are just noisy pigeons that need to be shooed away. It grew around a manor that’s older than most of our current fads are. Grand place for a sulk or a snog, your call really.

Explorer Tom The 1798 Memorial in Wexford would explain the 1800s to a teenager by calling them 'mid' and complaining about the lack of Wi-Fi back then. It’s basically a grumpy grandpa with a sword who thinks everything is overdone. Bring a camera and your most suspicious face.

Explorer Tom This Enniscorthy spot thinks it’s the only battlefield with actual style, which is a bold claim for a field of nothing. It’s proud of its silence and the way the wind sounds like a ghostly trumpet. Bring a map, get lost anyway, that's the fun.