Vinegar Hill

Vinegar Hill (389 feet high), close to the town of Enniscorthy, in County Wexford, scene of the complete defeat of the Irish rebels by General Lake, June 21, 1798. They had held their camp here for about a month, and disgraced their cause by ruffianly outrages on the lives and property of the loyalists in the surrounding country. About 400 of the rebels were cut down, the remainder fled in headlong rout to Wexford, whither Lake marched the day after, killing all whom he found with arms. See Lecky's History of England in the Eighteenth Century.