The ruins of Selskar Monastery are in the center of Wexford. The walls of the nave and the tower, renovated in the 19th century, have been partially preserved from the former Augustinian monastery. There is a former cemetery around the church.
The Augustinian monastery was founded in Wexford in the 12th century. However, there is evidence that before the Viking invasion there was an early Christian monastery here, and earlier also the temple of Odin. The monastery was inhabited until the Reformation. Later it fell into disrepair, and the destruction was completed by Cromwell's army in the 17th century.
In the mid-nineteenth century, it was decided to build a temple of the Irish Church in the abbey. For this purpose, the former tower was renovated, allocating it as a sacristy. A neo-Gothic nave was added to it. The church operated until the mid-twentieth century. It is currently in ruins. In the cemetery, you can see old tombstones. Some of them have carved plates and crosses. Under one of the tower's windows, a small medieval sculpture of a chimera's head has been preserved.
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