TOUR GROUPS

Planning your school tour?

Make it an unforgettable one and visit the Irish National Heritage Park Ferrycarrig, Wexford, where you will leave the 21st century behind and travel back to the 1st century and beyond.

There are 16 sites which depict the settlement of man in Ireland from 7000BC to the Viking invasion.

All the sites are authentically furnished to allow you to see first hand what it was really like for our ancestors.


Guided tours are available for all prebooked school groups. (Pre-booking is essential!) Please note that due to the large volume of visitors to the park, we request that school groups be supervised at all times by teachers or parents.

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Basic School Tour Package

Our 35 acre park allows the student to experience first hand how our ancestors lived. Starting in the middle Stone Age each student is guided through the major changes in Irish history, learning how people worked, lived and died. Interacting with our experienced guides the student will learn about early Irish history through different mediums than normal. Sights, sounds, smell and even taste enable the student to get a truly unique perspective into Early Irish History. Our 90 minute tour begins with a short Audio Visual and culminates at our fantastic Viking House and Boat Yard on the edge of the river Slaney, giving each student an invaluable insight into lifestyle from the Stone Age to the arrival of the Vikings.

The Irish National Heritage Park - "learning in a different way"

Costs Per Student
Primary School : € 4.00
Secondary School : € 4.50

Additional Activities

Fulacht Fiadh Demonstration: cooking in the prehistoric method and allowing each student to witness the meat being cooked and even sample some. Not for the faint hearted! € 1.50 per student (must be pre-ordered)

Workbooks - an excellent follow-on tool for class work. Allows student and teacher to revisit topics and concepts from their visit to the park. € 0.75 per student, a pencil is included. (pre-ordering is preferred)

Lunch Boxes - Chicken nuggets / sausages and chips and a drink provided for each student after their tiring trek through history. €4.50 per student (must be pre-ordered)

Learning through doing

In keeping with our ongoing living history programme, the Irish National Heritage Park is running interactive workshops for student groups. These workshops are specially designed to give students important historical information but in a colourful and creative manner. They allow the individual student to explore and discover history in a way that appeals to their senses.

Workshop A

Step back 1000 years into a Viking house and learn first hand about daily life by witnessing authentic clothing, leather working, weapons and normal domestic life.
Price: €4.00 per student (1hour) Pre-booking necessary

Workshop B

Viking Shield Making

In keeping with Viking tradition, make and decorate your own personal Shield using "history inspired design". Once produced and painted each student can return home with their shield as a reminder of their learning experience.



Price: €10.00 per student (1hour) Pre booking necessary

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Looking for a second attraction, then may we recommend the:

National 1798 Visitor Centre in Enniscorthy which traces the rebellion in County Wexford using a dramatic audio-visual display to simulate the Battle of Vinegar Hill. Telephone (054) 37596 for further details .





Dunbrody Famine Ship in New Ross. Visit Ireland’s unique emigrant ship. The Dunbrody is a full scale reconstruction of a 19th Century Famine ship, an authentic replica of the Three Masted Barque built in Quebec in 1845 for the Graves family of New Ross.






Hook Lighthouse. Visit one of the Oldest Operational Lighthouses in the World. "By Hook Or By Crook" you will be enthrolled. Guided tours or the lighthouse, Multi-lingual literature, Café, Craft Shop, Car and Coach Parking.

Group and educational visits are welcome. Information on restaurant facilities, coach parking, planned itineraries and group admission charges are available on request BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Conatct Us for information or to arrange group tours