ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, WEXFORD
From Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)
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ST. PETER'S CHAPEL AND COLLEGE. —Of the noteworthy modern buildings of the town of Wexford the most prominent are the above named, which present an imposing view from their site on Summer Hill. The church is elegantly finished and is adorned with beautiful rose windows, and the college occupies a foremost place among the Catholic institutions of learning in Ireland. Wexford is a place of great antiquity, the town having been founded by the Danes in the 9th century, who named it Weisfiord or Washford from the shallowness of the water at low tide. It is situated on the river Slaney, so called from Slainge, a Firbolg chief who landed there about 1,300 years before the Christian era. The town has played a conspicuous part in Irish history from the landing of the Normans in the 12th century down to the great Irish Rebellion of 1798. Among the many memorable incidents of its history is the brutal massacre of more than three hundred women and children at the foot of the cross in the market square of the town by the Puritan butcher, Cromwell.
St. Peter's Chapel and College
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