🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Woodenbridge Heritage Walk

📍 Wicklow🚶 6 stops🚶️ 1.23km⌛ ~35 min

From a 1608 coaching inn to the golf-course oak tree where John Redmond urged the Irish Volunteers to war in September 1914 — a speech that split the movement in two — this trail follows Woodenbridge's three meeting rivers past a WWI memorial naming 1,192 of the county's dead, a vanished gold rush, and a long-closed railway junction. Looking for things to do in Woodenbridge? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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Stops on This Trail

  1. Woodenbridge Hotel
  2. Site of John Redmond's Woodenbridge Speech
  3. Woodenbridge World War One Memorial Park
  4. The Wooden Bridge — Meeting of Three Rivers
  5. Goldmines River & the Wicklow Gold Rush of 1795
  6. Woodenbridge Junction Railway Station (remains)

For Schools

This trail is also available as a free printable classroom worksheet or full trail booklet — no site visit required. See how Classroom Prep Mode works →