Cashel, Co. Tipperary
45 minutes drive from Sliabh gCua Farmhouse bed and breakfast.Cashel is particularly renowned for the Rock of Cashel (one of Ireland's most popular tourist sites), a site hosting a ruined church and fortifications, formerly the seat of the Irish kings of Munster.
The Heritage Centre & Tourist Office on Main Street (admission free) displays a model of Cashel in the 1640s and has a multimedia presentation in several languages. The Charters granted by the kings Charles II Stuart (1663) and James II Stuart (1687) are also on display.
Cashel is home to the Museum of Rural Life. A delightful series of informal reconstructions of various traditional thatched village shops, a forge, and other businesses, together with a penal Chapel situated in a confined area within the town of Cashel, near to the famous Rock Of Cashel.
The Rock of Cashel, also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock served as the traditional seat of the Kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion, though few remnants if any of the early structures survive. The majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries. Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century A.D. The complex has a character of its own, unique and native, and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe.
Cashel
Information on tourism, business and community in the town of Cashel.