Oulart Hill 1798 Battlefield Walking Hub

Explore the world’s biggest 1798 monument, Tulach a’ tSolais and the most influential battlefield of the Rising. Savour the 3km-looped Jean Kennedy Smith Walk or the 10km Unyoke Walk. Enjoy the vast panoramas from these walks and also from the 0.5km Cosán na Glóire with its 21 memorials to 1798 battles. Experience the many facets of Oulart The ’98 Village, which has all facilities. Geocaches and treasure hunt for children.

Note: Tulach a’ tSolais is open year round. Closed 1st February each year

Good to Know

Sat Nav:

Oulart Village trailhead 52.505, -6.388
Unyoke/Trading Post trailhead 52.454, -6.401

OSI Discovery Map Series: 69

Grid Reference:

Oulart Village Trailhead T 092 404
Unyoke/Trading Post Trailhead T 087 347

Guided Tours: N

Parking: Y

Nearby

Wells House & Gardens

Ballyelland Pottery

Wexford Wildfowl Reserve

Don’t Miss

Tulach a’ tSolais, An Abhallann, Battlefield, Fr. Murphy’s Well.
The ’98 Chapel, McGawley Memorial, 1898 and 1948 Monuments.
Burrowes Residence, Coillte ’98
Remains of medieval Oulart, now the home of Bygone Days: House of Stories.

For more local information, please visit: www.oularthill.ie

Oulart Hill 1798 Battlefield Walking Hub: Three walks, centred on Oulart Hill, share one of the most historic and scenic locations in Co. Wexford. View the vast panoramas which explain the hill’s strategic military significance and why it was the site of the most influential battle of 1798. Ramble into Tulach a’ tSolais which interprets the 1790s in their particular context of the European Enlightenment.

The Unyoke Walk, through undulating farmland, includes 3km of the actual untouched medieval Wexford-Dublin coach road – a rare experience. It passes several sites of interest, all of which are interpreted for the walker, ending in the tiny hamlet of The Unyoke which has a caravan-camping park, shop and pub.

Cosán na Glóire (Path of Glory) runs gently across the level summit, by the battlefield to Tulach a’ tSolais. It passes some 25 memorial stones by the pathway’s side which commemorate local heroes and the battles in which they fought in 1798.

The Jean Kennedy Smith Walk is a looped walk from the hill to Oulart the ’98 Village. See the ’98 Chapel and several sites and monuments in the
village. This walk includes both the Tree of Liberty planted by Jean Kennedy Smith in 1995 in honour of the ideals of the United Irishmen and Tulach a’tSolais for which she turned the first sod in 1998. Now you can also reflect on our national political values and aspirations in the new Mise Éire monument to the Irish Revolutionary period 1890-1922.