Oulart Hill

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Oulart Hill
County Wexford
1798 Battle of Oulart Hill Monument - geograph.org.uk - 3496774.jpg
Summit: 587 feet T08654163
52°30’56"N, 6°24’0"W

Oulart Hill is a hill of 587 feet in County Wexford. It is a hill of dark grey slates on siltstone laminae bedrock.

This hill was the scene of a battle in the Wexford Rebellion of 1798, fought on 27 May 1798 when a gathering of 1,000 rebels annihilated a detachment of militia sent from Wexford town.

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