{"id":9912,"date":"2017-11-11T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traun-photo.com\/dan\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2017-11-12T16:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T21:57:53","slug":"duncannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traun-photo.com\/dan\/duncannon\/","title":{"rendered":"DUNCANNON FORT & BEACH \u2013 COUNTY WEXFORD \u2013 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND #discoverireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUNCANNON FORT & BEACH<\/h1>\n

We continued our trip across the River Barrow\u00a0 from Passage East.\u00a0 We stopped at Duncannon Beach to stretch our legs and take in the sight of Duncannon Fort.<\/p>\n

Duncannon Fort is located in a strategic position on a Hook Peninsula in the eastern part of\u00a0Waterford Harbour<\/a>, giving access to Ireland’s\u00a0Three Sisters: the\u00a0River Barrow,\u00a0River Nore\u00a0and\u00a0River Suir.\u00a0\u00a0Queen Elizabeth I built the star fort between 1587\u201388.\u00a0 Its purpose was to defend\u00a0Waterford\u00a0from possible invasion by the\u00a0Spanish Armada.<\/p>\n

Hook Peninsula is the “hook” in “By hook or by crook.”\u00a0\u00a0Hook and Crook are the names of headlands on either side of a bay by Waterford,\u00a0Ireland.\u00a0 Hook Head and Crooke are on opposite sides of the Waterford channel.\u00a0 Cromwell (born 1599, died 1658) is reputed to have said that Waterford would fall ‘by Hook or by Crooke’, that is, by a landing of his army at one of those two places during the siege of the town in 1649\/50.<\/p>\n

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Duncannon Fort saw major military action during the\u00a0Irish Confederate Wars. Commanded by the Royalist governor\u00a0Laurence Esmonde, 1st Baron Esmonde, it was besieged and captured by\u00a0Irish Catholic Confederation\u00a0forces under\u00a0Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara\u00a0in January\u2013March 1645.\u00a0 Oliver Cromwell\u00a0failed to retake Duncannon in 1649, but it surrendered in 1650 after a blockade led by\u00a0Henry Ireton.
\n~Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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