Waterford and County Wexford - Ireland 2014 - page 250

Cost and Hours: €7.50; July-Aug daily 10:00-17:00; May-June and Sept Mon-Fri
11:30-16:30, closed Sat-Sun; by appointment after hours, in slow times, and Oct-April; tel.
051/388-264, www.kennedyhomestead.com .
Getting There: It's four miles (6 km) south of New Ross near Dunganstown (look
for sign off R-733, long one-lane road). Don't confuse the Kennedy Homestead with the
nearby JFK Arboretum—a huge park with 4,500 species of trees and a grand six-county
view. It's nice if you like trees and plants, but there's no Kennedy history there.
Visiting the Homestead: You'll view two short videos, both fascinating if you like
Kennedy stuff—5 minutes of Kennedy's visit to the farm and a 16-minute newsreel tracing
the events of his 1963 trip through Ireland.
After the videos, you're led on a 15-minute tour by Patrick Grennan, a distant Kennedy
relative whose grandmother hosted the tea here for JFK. You're then free to peruse the
barn, lined with Kennedy-in-Ireland memorabilia that details the history of the dynasty.