cashel town Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/cashel-town Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:40:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 CASHEL http://toursmaps.com/cashel.html http://toursmaps.com/cashel.html#respond Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:38:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=226416 CASHEL Cashel sits at the foot of the 90m SRock of Cashel (ak.a. St. Patrick’s Rock), a huge limestone outcropping topped by medieval buildings. (Open Mar.-Sept. daily 9:30am-5:30pm; Oct.-Feb. M-F 9:30am-5:30pm. Free.) Down the cow path from the Rock lie the ruins of Hore Abbey, built by Cistercian monks and presently inhabited by sheep. The GPA-Bolton Library, on John St. houses ecclesiastical texts and rare manuscripts, including a 1550 edition of Machiavelli’s II Principe and the world’s smallest book. (62 511. Call for tours.) The internationally acclaimed Bru Boru Heritage Centre, at the base of the Rock, stages traditional music

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