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Fethard Lifeboat Station

1886 establishments in Ireland1914 disestablishments in Ireland1997 establishments in IrelandBuildings and structures in County WexfordLifeboat stations in Ireland
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RNLI Lifeboat Station Fethard on Sea County Wexford May 2025
RNLI Lifeboat Station Fethard on Sea County Wexford May 2025

Fethard Lifeboat Station is the base for a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) inshore lifeboat at Fethard-on-Sea on the south coast of County Wexford, Ireland. The RNLI first stationed a lifeboat at Fethard in 1886. The station had been scheduled for closure in 1914, when it was decided to place a motor-powered lifeboat at Dunmore East, but the station was closed prematurely, after nine of the 14 crew lost their lives during the rescue of the crew of the schooner Mexico. A station was re-established at Fethard, when an inshore lifeboat was placed there in 1996.

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Fethard Lifeboat Station
L4049, New Ross Municipal District

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Fethard Lifeboat Station

L4049
New Ross Municipal District (Fethard ED)
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RNLI Lifeboat Station Fethard on Sea County Wexford May 2025
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Tintern Abbey, County Wexford
Tintern Abbey, County Wexford

Tintern Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located on the Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland. The Abbey – which is today in ruins, some of which have been restored – was founded in c.1200 by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as the result of a vow he had made when his boat was caught in a storm nearby. While the specific date of foundation is unconfirmed in some sources, in a 1917 analysis for the Royal Irish Academy, church historian J. H. Bernard suggests a foundation date of 3 December 1200. Once established, the abbey was colonised by monks from the Cistercian abbey at Tintern in Monmouthshire, Wales, of which Marshal was also patron. To distinguish the two, the mother house in Wales was sometimes known as "Tintern Major" and the abbey in Ireland as "Tintern de Voto" (Tintern of the vow). After the Dissolution of the Monasteries the abbey and its grounds were granted firstly to Sir James Croft, and then in 1575 to Anthony Colclough of Staffordshire, a soldier of Henry VIII. His descendants became the Colclough Baronets. The final member of the Colclough family to reside at Tintern was Lucey Marie Biddulph Colclough and, after she left in 1959, the Irish state started conservation and consolidation works on the site. Between 1982 and 2007, the National Monuments service of the Office of Public Works undertook a number of excavation and heritage development efforts at the abbey, including special conservation measures for local bat colonies. Additional works were undertaken after a fire in the site's visitor centre in 2012, which damaged part of the 19th century outbuildings on the abbey's grounds.