TOWER - Hotel and Leisure Centre

A walking tour of one hour duration, through the regional capital and Ireland’s oldest city, including two cathedrals, four national monuments, and a gallery of rogues and rascals, delivered in a witty, entertaining style, by a master storyteller whose name is Jack Burtchaell.

Did you know that:

The first frog in Ireland was released in Waterford
The only family in the world which has a father and son decorated with the Victoria Cross for bravery is the Roberts family from this City.
Thomas Francis Meagher, the man who chose the Irish flag was born here.
Waterford is the only city in Europe to have a Roman Catholic and a Protestant Cathedral both designed and built by the same man.
The modern method of Bacon Curing was developed in Waterford.
Waterford was the first Irish City to be besieged by artillery.
Waterford was the only city besieged by Cromwell which he failed to capture.
Our Roman Catholic Cathedral is the oldest in Ireland.
Waterford for centuries was Ireland's second city.
Henry VIII presented the City with a Cap of Maintenance