St Mullins

St Mullins Lock is the last on the Barrow; below it the river is tidal, and the village quay lies about a kilometre downstream, where cruisers tie up beside the old grain store built to hold cargo brought up from New Ross. Allow for the rise and fall of the tide when you moor, and speak to the Port of New Ross harbour master before heading on towards the sea. Above the quay, St Moling founded a monastery in the seventh century; its graveyard holds the ruins of several churches, the stump of a round tower and a carved high cross, close to a Norman motte and bailey and St Moling’s Well. The Mullicháin Café serves coffee, cakes and light meals in the grain store from spring to autumn and hires out bikes, and Blanchfield’s pub is in the village. The Barrow Way starts here for walkers heading north.