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Powerscourt Wicklow
16 Reviews This spot is on the itinerary of all tourists to Wicklow. Once one of the most magnificent Palladian mansions in Ireland and home of the Wingfield family for 350 years, it passed to the Slazenger...
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Glendalough Wicklow
19 Reviews For such a small country, there sure is a lot to see here. Glendalough means, The Valley of Two Lakes. The buildings here are from the 8th and 12th Centuries. The most famous is the Round Tower. It is...
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Mount Usher Gardens Wicklow
3 Reviews Mount Usher is a great garden laid out in a naturalistic style in the 19th century and open to the public for many years (Bear in mind you do have to pay in). Its considered one of the finest gardens...
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Kilruddery Estate Wicklow
1 Review Kilruddery Estate is in a lot of ways the opposite to Powerscourt: Whereas Powerscourt is worth a visit because of its gardens, not necessarily its mansion, Kilruddery is worth a visit more for its...
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Glendalough is a valley with 2 notable lakes up the Wicklow Mountains. It used to be a monastic settlement in the 6th century, founded by St. Kevin. There is a round tower on the site, which has been very well preserved.Glendalough is very popular with school & coach tours. This pic was taken by Suzanne_M, but I scanned it for her, so I'm gonna use it ;-)
If your looking for a good place to stopover on your way around wicklowtry ''greystones'' there ane many bed and breakfast places there that wontbreak the budget.drop into glen of the downs pub and have a queit pint, and ask the locals the bestplace to stay, they will stear you right for the cost of a pint of black.if you would like more info you may email me at donnellyspears@aol.comenjoy your wiclklow trip,take plenty of film before u leave home as its not cheap theremike donnelly
Triton-lake is an artificial lake built in eth centre of Powerscourt - park and it got its name from the small sculpture of the fountain, that is a copy of one of Bernini's works in Rome.The steps of the terrace of the powerscort palace led directely to this small lake, stepping down lots of artificial steps, that were dug into the landscape and surrounded by the so-called "Italian garden "Walking around the most important parts of Powerscourt castle and park will take about half a day !
At one of the entrance-gates of Powerscourt you will see this interesting gate with ornate decorations : The so-called "Bamberg Gate" was produced in 1770 in Vienna for the cathedral of Bamberg. From there it was taken to Powerscourt in 1850 by the 7th Viscount of Powerscourt, who travelled a lot and brought plenty of artifacts to his Manor. Just imagine a transport of such a heavy iron-gate by the technical means of 1850.Fuerst Pueckler - another well-known globetrotter of the 19th century - also came to Powerscourt to admire the park and get ideas for his own park in Bad Muskau, that he had built also in the tradition of "English Parks"read more about him on my Muskau-page !
Powerscourt palace and Gardens are situated south of Dublin in the Wicklow Mountains opposite the 'Great Sugar Loaf Mountain'.Unfortunately the building burned 1974 and since that time there is only the fassade of the House left.But the gardens are in a wonderful condition!There is a Japanese Garden, an Italian Garden, and even a cemetary, where the Manor's owners buried their dogs,cats and even horses and cows .Powerscourt Palace & Gardens were built in 1730Today you have to pay an entrance fee at the entrance to the park and the parking of your car inside the park will be included.
Next to the lakes there are also some remains of the old monastery of Glendalough, nother special is left over, except a few remains of nice arches and a few decorations.Glendalough consists only of a large parking-lot, the few ruins , a kiosk and maybe 2 private houses......this might be the reason , why VT does not have it's own page for it, although Glendalough is one of the major sights in Ireland.
There are severalsmall lakes next to Glendalough and they are really scenic, BUT the location Glendalough Lakes that is listed in VT under County Wicklow seems to be rather in the Ring of Kerry-area - take a look at the map that is provided by VT and compare it with villages closeby like Waterville (16km) and Sneem (15km).Unfortunately lots of VT-members show their pics and tips about Glendalough there...
Celtic Crosses could be seen quite a lot in the small cemetery of Glendalough. They are not so very large and ornate like at other places, where you may see so-called "High Crosses" with ornate decorations, but they look really nice in their natural surrounding of the small cemetery around the small church of Glendalough.
the round tower of Glendalough is one of the few round towers left over in Ireland and science still has problems to find out about the purpose of these towers.In the hight of about 5 meters above the ground there is a door that could be blocked in case of enemies approaching.So this was for saftey reasons, but why would they have built such a high tower just for that ??
St.Kevin's Kitchen is the quite strange name for this small stone-church in Glendalough founded by St.Kevin in the 6th century.It was of course never used as a kitchen, but with the small bell-tower on top of that little church, that was similar to a oven-chimney, people used to call it St.Kevin's kitchen.Once that you had payed a small entrance-fee at the parking you are free to walk around all of the sights of Glendalough freely and without restrictions. During the night they are totally open.
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