Thank you for the reply with the links - very useful, was unaware of these sites. Some comments:
- Seems that the belltower is substantially older than I thought - I thought it dated from 1890s-1900s.
The referenced websites seems to omit/ignore known facts about various sites that would add substantial local color. Two examples:
- I believe the blanked off niche above the gate to the County Hall (former County Gaol) is either the doorway condemned prisoners stepped through immediately before their public executions, or else was constructed to mark the executions directly at that spot. A great-great-grandfather of mine watched the last public execution in Wexford there in 1864. Later the niche/doorway was used to exhibit a religious statute - now removed, doubtless in a fit of PC secularism. Could they not have let it remain as a memorial to those who suffered on that spot?
- No mention of the documented burial alive at St. Selskars. When I was a child, my grandparents - both natives of Wexford, delighted in telling chilling stories of headless coach drivers and particularly of burials alive. Well, whatever about the coach drivers, when I started my family history research i was astonished to discover that story of the burial alive in St. Selskars churchyard was actually true - it is listed in the events of the year in the Parliamentary Register for 1848 (may be off a year or two). A ships sailor fell ill during a cholera epidemic, and they were in such a haste to be rid of him that they gave him a premature burial....
