Ardee House B&B
Springmount, Kilkenny
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Ardee House B&B Kilkenny

Springmount Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Newgrange Redux

A travel blog entry by sraffel

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I couldn't let the rest of the Raffels go back to the Midwest without seeing Newgrange. It is just too cool and unique, so I toured it again. We actually had the same tour guide, and Joy will be happy to know he was wearing the hat we liked so much. The tour was a lot more crowded. We had to wait over an hour to get on one of them, and ...

Good for the Soul

A travel blog entry by dyer0930

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We decided to take the scenic route through the Wicklow Mountains, a portion of which is a national park. We stopped in Roundwood for lunch at the Coach House Tavern, a historic building with great food and huge portion sizes. Two of us had beef and Guinness casserole and two had cottage pie, which really hit the spot. Even Little D enjoyed scarfing down the beef and delicious sauce, along with a pile of mashed potatoes. We are cracked up by ...

Adventure into the Past

A travel blog entry by sraffel

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... in through a roof box that's level with the horizon and illuminates the inside of the tomb for a few minutes (assuming there is sun, this is Ireland after all. Some years the effect doesn't even happen). Our tour guide simulated this for us with an electric light, but assured us it's much more spectacular with actual sunlight, since much of the tomb is made of quartz from the Wicklow Mountains.

The inside is very narrow and there are three ...

Monasterboice, Mellifont Abbey and Newgrange

A travel blog entry by marcelo.heather

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... The interesting thing about it is that on the winter solstice the light comes through the door way an illuminates the burial chamber in the centre of the mound.

So Day 1, altogether very cutlural and interesting. We decided to get heritage passes which proved to be a very good move. ...

Wilder still

A travel blog entry by simoncole


Today...oh dear,
The wave period was 6, with local wind chop. Really rough. Jeremy and I were both sick.

I had wanted to sail to Howeth, but after sickness and a gale force warning I decided to change tack and aim for Carlingford Lough. This turned into a 14nm tack....not good!

Because we were rising and falling over waves it reduced our ...

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