Date: Saturday 9th September 2023
Closing Date: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Organiser: Tom Kardas (with Thanks to Jim Kenny for organising previous editions)
E-Mail: utomgl@gmail.com
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be considerate when parking, we had some issues with local businesses in 2020. Tom will issue an e-mail to entrants with parking instructions, please make sure you follow them. Please do not clog up the centre of the village, and only park in the Church area, or in other quiet areas, and do not obstruct the village businesses.
Yola: the forgotten language of Co Wexford
Yola is most strongly associated with the baronies of Forth and Bargy in Wexford. It is thought that its origins lie with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century. As the newcomers established a foothold in Wexford and the south-east they brought their medieval Middle English language with them.
The passage of centuries had little effect on the dialect; although it subsumed some Irish and French words it retained its distinctive character, and remained markedly different from the more modern English that developed elsewhere.
Entry Fee €5 on Eventmaster, plus fees
Optional ACP or Audax Ireland Medal €7
1-day Licence if required €20, this will be charged automatically on Eventmaster if you do not have a valid Annual CI Licence.
Entry on Eventmaster: https://eventmaster.ie/event/Zrl8FMWcZY
Ride with GPS Map: Yola 200 Map
Route Description:
The Yola is a relatively flat 200 around much of the scenic Wexford coastline where the language was commonly spoken less than a century ago. Starting in Kilmuckridge, which appears as Ford on some maps, there’s a rolling section down to Wexford town with glimpses of the sea beyond the beaches featured in the movie Saving Private Ryan.
From there it’s on to Kilmore Quay, with its thatched houses and vistas of the Saltee Islands, home to its own Royal family. Southwest by coast guard cottages and the small seaside village of Cullenstown, the route then clings to Bannow Bay, where the Normans first came ashore, before reaching your first control in Wellingtonbridge.
Next you’ll travel close to Tintern Abbey, past an old shipwreck and through Fethard-on-Sea before shadowing the long tapered finger of the Hook Peninsula by the haunted Loftus Hall ending at the famously picturesque lighthouse. Back again through the charming shoreline towns of Duncannon and Arthurstown and up the hill in Ballyhack, after its car ferry to Waterford, before turning to Campile, bombed in WWII. The control here has you well over half-way.
You’ll head inland for a while through the 1798 battleground of Foulksmills and Taghmon leading back towards Wexford town and a penultimate control just off the main Wexford to New Ross road. Leaving this brief interlude with major roads behind, turning past the National Heritage Park the route offers panoramas of the Slaney which you’ll cross using a small reed abounded bridge after Killurin. Then by Artramon House back into Castlebridge and the final leg to home.
At just short of 1600m of climbing and about 202km it’s not the most demanding, but hopefully it’s a rewarding day in beautiful places.
See also
- –Dying Sow (permanent)
- 1.5 Loughs winter permanent.
- Abandoned Churches 200
- Adrian Nealon 200 (& 100)
- An East Clare Meander 200
- Angel of Mons 200
- Ardattin 200
- Ardattin 200 Night Ride
- Around Down 200
- Audare 200
- Aughties EPIC 200 Audax
- Banner 200
- Big Fella 200
- Birr 200
- Blackwater 200 (Permanent)
- Coastal Classique 200 Permanent
- Connaught Centenary 200
- Crumbling Rocks 200 Permanent
- Dark Hedges 200
- Dawn Raid 200
- Dying Light 200
- East Wicklow 200 (Permanent only)
- Effin 200
- EWC 200
- Excelsior 200 Permanent
- Faceless Monk 200
- Fermanagh 200
- Forgotten Roads 200
- Fratres Cruciferi/4 Towers 200
- Gheimhridh 200 (Winter 200)
- Gimme Shelter 200
- Inner Ring 200
- Killeshin 200
- Kingsmountain 200
- Long Heron/4 Aquaducts 200
- Mayo 200
- Mayo Western Lakes 200/100 MTB
- Mayo XTRM 200
- Mick Byrne 200
- Midlands Meander 200
- Midleton 200
- Miners Cross 200
- North Leinster Riviera 200 Permanent
- Nutcracker 200
- Orwell 200
- Paddy Reilly 200
- Pink Elephant 200
- Rambo 200
- Rock Savage 200
- Sligo 200
- Tara 200
- Temporary Fever Hospital 200
- Titanic Torr 200
- Tubbercurry Offroad 200
- Vanishing Battalion 200
- West Wicklow 200 Permanent
- Wolfe Tone West Cork 200
- Wolftrap 200
- Yola 200