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Kells Priory, Co Kilkenny
Kilkenny is well established as the most uniquely medieval city
in Ireland. Its medieval heritage is found in its narrow streetscape,
its historical buildings and its landmarks. However, the city’s origins predate existing medieval landmarks. Saint Canice (who gives Kilkenny its name) founded a monastic settlement here in the sixth century. e ninth century round tower beside the wonderful stone cathedral of St Canice’s is a remaining monastic landmark. Built in the 13th century and a showcase to ornate stonemasonry skills, St Canice’s is the second longest Cathedral in Ireland.
One of the most striking attractions in Kilkenny is the Kells Priory. is enormous site has the appearance of a large castle, with high walls and strong towers, but despite its military appearance it was a monastic foundation, founded by the Norman knight Geo rey FitzRobert circa 1193 for the Augustinian canons.
And of course, as is a persistent theme of medieval Ireland, the woman don’t usually fair too well. Ireland’s only witch trials took place in Kilkenny in 1324 (supposedly Europe’s 1st witchcra trials). Dame Alice Kyteler (Innkeeper and Moneylender) was accused of using poison and sorcery against her four husbands, having amassed a fortune from them. Before she could be tried, Alice ed to England, but her maid was ogged and burned at the stake.
Church of St. Peter, Co Monaghan
This one is a little different, but after all those heavy hitters, I thought it best to finish with something a little more humble, and perhaps a little less ancient. Laragh is the 19th century church for the Church of Ireland. It is said that it was brought back to Laragh by the mill owner and his wife from their honeymoon in Switzerland where she saw and fell in love with it. Designed in a Swiss-gothic hybrid style, the church is constructed entirely out of corrugated iron and sites in a small narrow wooded valley alongside the river.
The beauty of the church is in the details. The landscaping around the church is designed to imitate and suggest a small mountain glade with rocky outcrops around the church. To ensure that no regular edges exist other than the chapel itself, rocks and stones have been buil around the chapel in mounds to create crevices and irregular outline to the raised platform on which the church sits. Even the gateway has received this treatment to ensure the victory of the picturesque over practicality in this little outpost of the Industrial age.
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Castleroche, Co Louth
is hidden castle in Co Louth was built in the thirteenth century, and is one of the nest examples in Ireland from this period. On top of that, it is the only one from the period that was constructed by a woman. However, legend isn’t very kind to this early female ruler. e story goes that Lady Rohesia de Verdun promised her hand in marriage to the architect who built her a castle at Roche. On the night before the wedding she asked her future husband to peer out a large high window to look over all the land that would soon be his. When he did she pushed him to his death. If you pay a visit I suggest you stick to the ground floor.
Castletown House, Co Kildare
is spectacular estate in Celbridge is one of the nest of its kind
in Ireland. Built between 1722 and 1729 for William Conolly, the wealthiest commoner in Ireland, the house contains 100 rooms and set in 120 acres of beautiful landscape grounds stretching down to the river Li ey. e house is of such scale that it has been called, “the only house in Ireland to which the term ‘palace’ can be applied.” When Conolly died in 1729 his widow Katherine continued to live in the house and commission a number of follies (such as the wonderful Barn and Conolly’s Folly) to keep the local people employed during periods of hardship. She may also have hired a few locals to help her keep those 100 rooms clean.
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