Lacken, County Wexford

Lacken (Irish: Leacán)[1] is a townland about two miles outside the town of New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland.

[4] The military effort was conducted with the help of an informal conscription of able-bodied men and order was preserved in towns by volunteer tradesmen and in the countryside by small crossroads guarding parties.

Their numbers dwindled greatly during this time down to approximately 400 by 19 June, when Father Philip Roche led the remaining able-bodied insurgents in a retreat to the Three Rocks near Wexford town to avoid British troops.

Coillte, Ireland's state forestry body, planted 25,000 trees of the species used to build the Dunbrody Replica Famine Ship on Lacken Hill.

[6] The forest on Lacken Hill is quite individual due to its mixture of deciduous and coniferous trees and is rich in native flora and fauna.