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The Southeast Travel Guide

The Irish like to label their regions, and "Ireland's Sunny Southeast" is the tag they've applied to Counties Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Waterford. The moniker is by no means merely fanciful: the weather station on the coast at Rosslare reports that this region receives more hours of sunshine than any other part of the country. Little wonder the outdoors-loving Irish have made the Southeast's coast a popular warm-weather vacation destination. Receiving almost double the rays found anywhere else, the shore resorts buzz with activity from May to October. Thousands of families take their annual summer holidays here, where picnics and barbecues—often a rain-washed fantasy elsewhere in Ireland—are a golden reality. More »

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Places to Explore

Ballyhack
Cahir
Cashel
Dungarvan
Enniscorthy
Graiguenamanagh
Kilkenny City
Kilmore Quay
Leighlinbridge

Lismore
Old Leighlin
Rosslare
Thomastown
Tipperary Town
Tramore
Waterford City
Wexford Town

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