Art MacMurrough Kavanagh attacked Enniscorthy Castle in the 1370s, in an attempt to regain his ancestral land.

At this time Enniscorthy Castle is reported be in a ruined condition, due to a lack of proper upkeep by the Mc.

In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I handed the land to poet Edmund Spenser, though he never took up residence there.

It was used as a prison during the 1798 Rebellion, by the Irish 'United Irishmen' and then by the British after they re-took Enniscorthy town.

The castle site at the head of the River Slaney, in the centre of Enniscorthy town.

[6] There is a memorial plaque within the castle grounds noting details of the first flight across the Irish Sea, by Denys Corbett-Wilson.