Hook Peninsula

The Hook Peninsula is a peninsula in County Wexford, Ireland. It has been a gateway to south-east Ireland for successive waves of newcomers, including the Vikings, Anglo-Normans and the English.

The coastline has a number of beaches. The peninsula's fishing villages, bird watching on the mudflats of Bannow Estuary, deep sea angling, snorkeling and swimming are part of the area's maritime life.^{[citation needed]} The area's rivers, valleys, estuaries and hills have long provided south-west Wexford with rich grazing land.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Hook Head, headland on the peninsula
• Hook Lighthouse, at the tip of the peninsula
• Fethard-on-Sea, a village
• Duncannon, a village
• Loftus Hall, a country house
• Slade, a village overlooked by Slade Castle

Further reading

• Billy Colfer (20 April 2008). The Hook Peninsula, County Wexford. Cork University Press. ISBN 9781859183786.

External links

• Hook Peninsula website

52°08′03″N 6°55′10″W / 52.134286°N 6.919463°W / 52.134286; -6.919463