Ogham Writing Workshops at the Irish National Heritage Park

What to Expect

Ogham is the earliest written form of the Irish language, cut as notches and strokes along the edge of a standing stone, and the Irish National Heritage Park has a guide, Sue, who runs short workshops teaching visitors how to read and write it. Over three days of National Heritage Week 2026 she runs two sessions a day, each an hour long, in which you learn the alphabet, work out how your own name is spelled in it and make a piece of Ogham art to take home.

The workshop is free once you are inside the park, so the only cost is standard park admission. That makes it easy to fold into a wider day out. The Heritage Park at Ferrycarrig is a 35-acre site on the banks of the Slaney with full-scale reconstructions covering 9,000 years of Irish settlement, from a Mesolithic campsite through a crannog, a ringfort, an early Christian monastery and a Viking boatyard to a Norman motte. Two other Heritage Week activities run at the same time: an interactive armoury of Prehistoric, Gaelic, Viking and Norman artefacts in the Crannog House, and The Range, a paid archery, axe and spear throwing session.

Good to Know

• Tuesday 18, Thursday 20 and Friday 21 August 2026
• Two sessions each day, 11am to 12pm and 1pm to 2pm
• Free workshop, standard park admission rates apply
• Irish National Heritage Park, Ferrycarrig, Co. Wexford
• Part of National Heritage Week 2026, which runs 15 to 23 August
• Contact 053 912 0733 or bookings@irishheritage.ie

Getting There

The Irish National Heritage Park is at Ferrycarrig, about 4km northwest of Wexford town on the N11 towards Enniscorthy, and is signposted from the roundabout at the Ferrycarrig bridge. There is free parking on site. From Wexford town it is a ten-minute drive, and local Bus Eireann services on the Wexford to Enniscorthy route pass the entrance. Much of the site is outdoors on woodland and riverside paths, so wear shoes you do not mind getting muddy.