Rock of Cashel

... the Cliffs of Moher and The Burren down to Dingle for 2 nights, over to Kinsale for a night, up through Tipperary to see the Rock of Cashel and over to Kilkenny for 2 nights and then to Trim for our last night before leaving Dublin at a very early hour on ...

... fields and blue skies surrounding them. After exploring the Abbey, which was an amazing room where the alter was, I headed to the Rock of Cashel. Unfortunately for me, my camera died just as I got close enough to take some great pictures. I stopped in a ...

... 's just say for now that my earlier post was pretty spot on. Cashel is a small town on the Plains of Tipperary.  The Rock of Cashel is a rocky hill just north of Cashel.  On top of it sits the remains of a 9th century cathedral, a 12th century ...

... everyday! That's what vacations are for! So after a traditional Irish breakfast we headed back to Cashel to see the Rock of Cashel. The Rock of Cashel was a stronghold for the Kings of Munster from the 4th or 5th century up until 1101 when it was handed ...

We travelled as a 4some from Kit's in Kilmeague to The Rock of Cashel through the beautiful countryside of Ireland with it's typical gorse hedges and rock walls. There's no shortage of stone here so it gets put to good use as a building material in almost ...

... get it to sink in, which it did. The tour lasted for an hour and then we got to roam around the area and admire everything. The Rock of Cashel is located at the top of a hill, there's an Irish theory on how it got there, and it has an amazing view of the ...

... Cashel.  This hill is called St. Patrick's Rock, as apparently is every hillock in Ireland, or more descriptively, the Rock of Cashel. The place starts with a chapel overlooking the town consecrated in AD 1134.  More buildings are added over the ...