Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wexford. You may be able to find further references to Wexford in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Wexford	seaport	Bartholomew
WEXFORD	a sea-port, borough, market, post, and assize town	Lewis:Ireland

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wexford.

Place	Type of entry	Source
MARY'S (ST.), or LADY'S ISLAND	a parish	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Wexford within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	11th to 20th July 1776: Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin	9
Arthur Young	1st to 10th August 1776: Antrim, Londonderry and Donegal	1
Arthur Young	11th to 19th October 1776: Tipperary and Waterford	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer