{"id":8,"date":"2008-09-10T08:20:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T08:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/ballycanew-north-wexford\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T08:20:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T08:20:55","slug":"ballycanew-north-wexford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/ballycanew-north-wexford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballycanew"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ballycanew Wexford<\/h1>\n<p>Ballycanew is a rural village on the Gorey to Wexford road. The Ounavarra river which passes through the village, this has a great reputation for fishing. This picturesque village was once known as Ballyconway. An old Irish name for Ballycanew is &#8216;Baile Gan Uaigh&#8217; &#8211; Town without a grave.<br \/><a href=\"activities\/horse-riding-schools-and-equestrian-centres-in-gorey-and-north-wexford.html\" title=\"horse riding wexford\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a>The earliest reference is 1247 when Theodore de Nevel held lands there. In 1821, the population was 1094, but following the great famine it was reduced to 361.<\/p>\n<p>In the past the Furney family owned a mill, built in in 1589 and demolished in 1962. The old creamery was once a thriving industry, with an average of 2.5 million gallons of milk supplied per annum. &#8216;Papa Rhodes&#8217; restaurant is now situated in the old creamery.<\/p>\n<p>In June 1965, a bronze age grave was discovered in the Ballycanew Parish. There was a food vessel slightly damaged and broken human bones. The exact date of the burial is uncertain, but is probably more than 3,000 years old.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"activities\/horse-riding-schools-and-equestrian-centres-in-gorey-and-north-wexford.html\" title=\"horse riding wexford\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/picture-060-small-bf8.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ballycanew North Wexford\" title=\"Ballycanew North Wexford\" width=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><br \/><a href=\"activities\/horse-riding-schools-and-equestrian-centres-in-gorey-and-north-wexford.html\" title=\"horse riding wexford\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Visit Ballycanew Riding Centre.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 align=\"center\">If you have something you would like featured here about living in or moving to Ballycanew Co Wexford then why not email us at info@northwexford.com <\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballycanew Wexford Ballycanew is a rural village on the Gorey to Wexford road. The Ounavarra river which passes through the village, this has a great reputation for fishing. This picturesque village was once known as Ballyconway. An old Irish name for Ballycanew is &#8216;Baile Gan Uaigh&#8217; &#8211; Town without a grave. The earliest reference is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"parent":0,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.northwexford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}