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Encyclopedia Britannica



ENNISCORTHY

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 647 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ENNISCORTHY , a market town of Co. Wexford, Ireland, in the north parliamentary division, on the side of a steep hill above the Slaney, which here becomes navigable for
barges
  of large size. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 5458. It is 771 M. S. by W. from Dublin by the Dublin &
South
 -Eastern railway. There are breweries and flour-mills; tanning, distilling and woollen manufactures are also prosecuted to some extent, and the town is the centre of the agricultural
trade
  for the
district
 , which is aided by the water communication with Wexford. There are important fowl markets and horse-fairs. Enniscorthy was taken by Cromwell in 1649, and in 1798 was stormed and burned by the rebels, whose main forces encamped on an
eminence
  called Vinegar Hill, which overlooks the town from the
east
 . The old castle of Enniscorthy, a massive square
pile
  with a round tower at each corner, is one of the earliest military structures of the Anglo-Norman invaders, founded by
Raymond
  le Gros (1176). Ferns, the next station to Enniscorthy on the railway towards Dublin, was the seat of a former bishopric, and the modernized
cathedral
 , and ruins of a church, an Augustinian monastery founded by Dermod Mac-Morrough about 116o, and a castle of the Norman period, are still to be seen. Enniscorthy was incorporated by James I., and sent two members to the Irish
parliament
  until the Union.


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