New Ross - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

New Ross plays a part in a storyline from the soap opera Days of our Lives in January–February 2008, featuring Shirley Jones as an aged Colleen Brady, who reveals herself as the true mother of John Black. The scenes are set in New Ross.

New Ross is home to the Ros Tapestry project, a major community initiative being undertaken throughout County Wexford by a team of voluntary embroiderers. The fifteen tapestry panels are expected to be completed by 2010. The tapestries depict events around the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in south east Ireland, and specifically the founding of New Ross by William Marshall.

The Tholsel (Town Hall) was erected in 1749 by Charles Tottenham, a member of a Protestant Ascendancy family, then very prominent in the town. Its facade includes three noteworthy plaques. One is to Michael O'Hanrahan, the freedom fighter. Another is to Father Cullen, the temperance Pioneer. The third commemorates the hundredth anniversary of "ye glorious Battle of the Boyne".

At the Church of Ireland church in nearby Old Ross there is a memorial to the victims of the 1798 Scullabogue Barn Massacre.

On 29 June 2008, Jean Kennedy Smith, sister of the late President Kennedy, unveiled a statue of her brother on the Quay at New Ross.

The National Ploughing Championships for 2012 were held in Heathpark just outside New Ross. They ran from the Tuesday the 25th of September to Thursday the 28th. Over 187,000 people attend the Championships over the three days.

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