Hook Peninsula

Hook Peninsula

Rinn Duáin
Location of the Hook Peninsula
Geography
Location	Ireland
Adjacent to	Atlantic Ocean Celtic Sea
Area	60 km2 (23 sq mi)
Administration
Ireland
County	Wexford

The Hook Peninsula is a peninsula in County Wexford, Ireland. It has been a gateway to south-east Ireland for successive waves of newcomers, including the Vikings, Anglo-Normans and the English.

The coastline has a number of beaches. The peninsula's fishing villages, bird watching on the mudflats of Bannow Estuary, deep sea angling, snorkeling and swimming are part of the area's maritime life.^{[citation needed]} The area's rivers, valleys, estuaries and hills have long provided south-west Wexford with rich grazing land.^{[citation needed]}

• Hook Head, headland on the peninsula
• Hook Lighthouse, at the tip of the peninsula
• Fethard-on-Sea, a village
• Duncannon, a village
• Loftus Hall, a country house
• Slade, a village overlooked by Slade Castle

• Billy Colfer (20 April 2008). The Hook Peninsula, County Wexford. Cork University Press. ISBN 9781859183786.

• Hook Peninsula website

52°08′03″N 6°55′10″W / 52.134286°N 6.919463°W / 52.134286; -6.919463

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