Waterford
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 1.79 mi
- Elevation gain
- 0 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 0 ft
- Max elevation
- 76 ft
- TrailRank
- 36
- Min elevation
- 27 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 39 minutes
- Time
- one hour 12 minutes
- Coordinates
- 493
- Uploaded
- August 24, 2023
- Recorded
- August 2023
near Ferrybank, Leinster (Ireland)
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Short walk through Waterford, the largest city in the southeast of Ireland and the oldest, founded by the Vikings in the 9th century (and who gave it its name: Veðrafjǫrðr, “ram fjord”), given its strategic position at the mouth of the River Suir, forming a protected port that became an active commercial center (being the most important in Ireland for several centuries).
Starting to walk on the pier, along Merchants Quay, we find some wooden carvings that imitate motifs from Scandinavian culture. We find a first tower, the Clock Tower, of the six preserved from the old wall built by the Vikings (and expanded by the Anglo-Normans). Further on is the most interesting, Reginald's Tower, the only monument in Ireland that bears the name of an invader, the Viking Ragnall, who ruled the place in the 10th century, although the construction dates back to the 13th century, built by the English replacing the previous structure (part of a Viking fort, founded at the beginning of the 11th century); The building has also been a royal fortress, a military warehouse and currently houses an exhibition on the history of Waterford. On the outside there is
a full-scale replica of a Viking long ship, 12 meters long; also a cannonball from the siege of the city by Cromwell's troops in 1650.
We went up Bailey's New St, entering the Viking Triangle, where we found the ruins of the 13th century Franciscan convent, known as the French Church since it hosted the cult of the French Huguenots who took refuge here; A Viking house with a thatched roof has been built next to it, using only the materials and methods of the time. We can also see the Dragon Slayer Sword, a Viking sword carved into a 23-meter-long tree.
We continue towards the Anglican Christchurch Cathedral, built in the 18th century after the demolition of the previous Gothic one, which at the same time replaced the primitive church where the Gaelic princess Aoife MacMurrough and the English nobleman Richard de Clare (later known as Strongbow) married. ), a fact that would change Irish history forever.
After the temple, on the left we pass the Bishop's Palace, where you can see one of the most beautiful samples of glass in the country (Waterford glass is internationally renowned, with the oldest piece preserved here) and, in addition, a curl of Napoleon Bonaparte, who brought to Ireland his niece Letitia, married to Sir Thomas Wyse of Waterford, mayor of the city and Irish diplomat (who also named his first son Napoleon).
We now leave the Viking Triangle along Lady Lane, crossing Michael St in search of another of the old towers, Beach Tower, before returning along O'Connell St to the pier and ending this short but interesting walk through Waterford.
Starting to walk on the pier, along Merchants Quay, we find some wooden carvings that imitate motifs from Scandinavian culture. We find a first tower, the Clock Tower, of the six preserved from the old wall built by the Vikings (and expanded by the Anglo-Normans). Further on is the most interesting, Reginald's Tower, the only monument in Ireland that bears the name of an invader, the Viking Ragnall, who ruled the place in the 10th century, although the construction dates back to the 13th century, built by the English replacing the previous structure (part of a Viking fort, founded at the beginning of the 11th century); The building has also been a royal fortress, a military warehouse and currently houses an exhibition on the history of Waterford. On the outside there is
a full-scale replica of a Viking long ship, 12 meters long; also a cannonball from the siege of the city by Cromwell's troops in 1650.
We went up Bailey's New St, entering the Viking Triangle, where we found the ruins of the 13th century Franciscan convent, known as the French Church since it hosted the cult of the French Huguenots who took refuge here; A Viking house with a thatched roof has been built next to it, using only the materials and methods of the time. We can also see the Dragon Slayer Sword, a Viking sword carved into a 23-meter-long tree.
We continue towards the Anglican Christchurch Cathedral, built in the 18th century after the demolition of the previous Gothic one, which at the same time replaced the primitive church where the Gaelic princess Aoife MacMurrough and the English nobleman Richard de Clare (later known as Strongbow) married. ), a fact that would change Irish history forever.
After the temple, on the left we pass the Bishop's Palace, where you can see one of the most beautiful samples of glass in the country (Waterford glass is internationally renowned, with the oldest piece preserved here) and, in addition, a curl of Napoleon Bonaparte, who brought to Ireland his niece Letitia, married to Sir Thomas Wyse of Waterford, mayor of the city and Irish diplomat (who also named his first son Napoleon).
We now leave the Viking Triangle along Lady Lane, crossing Michael St in search of another of the old towers, Beach Tower, before returning along O'Connell St to the pier and ending this short but interesting walk through Waterford.
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River
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Museum
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