Cashel House Hotel

... Butler Court, 14 Lower Patrick St., butlercourt.com, tel 056/776-1178, Euro 80/room/night, cc or cashRock of Cashel, Kilkenny Castle. Also, Waterford, Cork, Middleton nearby. http://www.butlercourt.com/index.html Oct 8 - 10 Dingle, Eileen Collins ...

... been in Ireland, it is amusing but I am more than ready to leave. Looking forward to getting back to England. After we left Cashel we drove towards Dublin, after some getting lost because of the BAD sign postage, I despise it, it was amusing for a little ...

... , almost next door, for tea, coffee and sandwiches.   At 4.30pm, the reception began at the Cashel Palace Hotel - which was very grand old house that antiques roadshow would have liked.  Dinner was a four course event - that had me totally ...

... Our options: Drive north 17 kilometers to get a glimpse and a photo of the of the Kilkenny Castle and do a hotel inspection or drive directly to Cashel and crash at the B&B. Gary decides to "see" the Castle.  The scenery keeps me occupied and ...

... least. Margaret overrode my reluctance and we took the risk. We took a reasonably classy and somewhat expensive room at the Custom House Hotel and were grateful to both our Higher Powers that we managed to find a place to stay. Whilst Blacklion had been ...

... we were hungry, the pubs and restaurants were no longer serving. The helpful women at the tourist office sent us to the Cahir House Hotel where the bartender served us a wonderful three-course meal for 19 euro each. We then drove around a bit more and ...

... amazing…it didn't even seem like it was real.  On the way up to the beginning of the walk, we passed the Cliff House Hotel which was gorgeous!  It is built into the side of the cliff, looks out over the harbour, and the majority of the ...

... per night. We headed south out of Kilkenny via a lesser road toward Clonmel and given the distance to cover we decided to give Cashel and its rock a miss. Entering Lismore, an unscheduled stop and a cute little town, river, pubs, castle forest so we ...

... at 12:40 after stopping for coffee in a small town called Macroom. Bill drove like a pro! We got checked into the hotel (The White House...) which has us assigned to a room overlooking the street that goes straight to the harbor. It is now 9:55 pm and ...

... still neat to have encountered. After a wee bit of shopping, we continued our scenic drive to our hotel for the night. The Ballinalacken Castle Country House and Restaurant was situated a few miles down the road on a cliff next to the Atlantic Ocean. ...

... our hotel in the very centre of the city. Our accommodation, which we booked whilst in Australia, was the Oaks Smartstay Apartments on Cashel Street (PICS). The apartment was very stylish and comfortable and at $99 per night (35 GBP) it was great value, ...

... We especially enjoyed the Viking exhibits. It was very cool and interactive as far as museums go. After leaving Waterford, we moved toward Cashel, where we stopped to visit the Rock of Cashel, which isn't really a rock at all. It's a huge structure ...

... and I ordered the 5 cheese selection for desert. Very small portions, each of which was matched to a specific condiment. The Cashel blue came with fresh honeycomb, and although the blue itself was not exceptional, the combination was. There was also a ...

... ended) our journey to Kilkenny on the Irish country side...no major highways here! On the way, we stopped by the Rock of Cashel; a fortress occupied and fought over since the year ~300 AD.  Again, pretty cool history.  The queen of England just ...

Well, we got in yesterday afternoon and although I wrote the Cashel piece last night, I wasn't able to send it due to internet issues. Now I'm relaxing in a post-spa seaweed wrap haze and writing about our last 24 hours. It has been very, very kind to us. ...

... . There were a number of coincidences in Rex's choice of us as their refugees! Jacqui's long time friend Tony has visited Cashel on a number of occasions and she herself and her son Chris and his lovely Belfast girlfriend Claire have planned a visit to ...

... Jameson distillery and learned about the famous Irish whiskey.  We went back to our favorite pub that has wi-fi, Ryan's Sandymount House, since our hotel only gives us 20 minutes of internet at a time and there are a lot of us! On Wednesday, we went ...

... and tallest building on the site. Notice the doorway is about ten feet from the ground. The lookout would signal intruders advancing. Cashel priests and students would climb a ladder and up the many levels of stairs to fill the tower, then the ladder was ...