The Hook Peninsula is a peninsula

Peninsula

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 in County Wexford

County Wexford

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, Ireland

Ireland

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. It has been a gateway to south-east Ireland for successive waves of newcomers, including the Viking

Viking

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s, Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman

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s and the English

English people

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.

The coastline offers a beach a day for a fortnight and is one of the special attractions of this area. Pretty fishing villages, bird watching on the mudflats of Bannow Estuary, deep sea angling, snorkeling and swimming are part of the area's maritime life. Rivers, valleys, estuaries and rolling hills have long provided south-west Wexford with rich grazing land.

See also

• Hook Head
  Hook Head
  Hook Head is a headland in County Wexford, Ireland located on the east side of the estuary of the three sisters rivers . It is part of the Hook peninsula and is adjacent to the historic townland of Loftus Hall...
  
  
• Hook Lighthouse
  Hook Lighthouse
  The Hook Lighthouse is a building situated at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, in Ireland. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world, and the oldest operating lighthouse in the British Isles...
  
  
• Fethard-on-Sea
  Fethard-on-Sea
  Fethard-on-Sea , or Fethard, is a village inn south-western County Wexford, Ireland on the eastern side of the Hook peninsula. It is in the parish of Templetown in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns. Neighbouring parishes are Duncannon, Ramsgrange and Ballycullane.- History :Now known as a fishing...
  
  
• Duncannon
  Duncannon
  Duncannon is a village in southwest County Wexford, Ireland. Bordered to the west by Waterford harbour and sitting on a rocky promontory jutting into the channel is the strategically prominent Duncannon Fort which dominates the village.Primarily a fishing village, Duncannon also relies heavily on...
  
  
• Loftus Hall
  Loftus Hall
  Loftus Hall is a large mansion house on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland that is said to have been haunted both by the devil and by the ghost of a young woman....
  
  
• Legend of Loftus Hall Movie