About Cashel Self Catering Accommodation

Cashel self catering holiday home, comes with its own traditional half door inside. Located in the town centre and has views from the street of Rock of Cashel.

The house is modern fully equipped kitchen, fridge, freezer, microwave, dish washer / Kitchen - Stanley Range –Oil Fired –Double Oven. The house is fully equipped with cooking & baking ware. Separate utility room off Kitchen with washer and dryer and down stairs toilet.

The living room has an open fire place and television/DVD/CD Music system Down stairs main sitting room has a traditional open Fire and oil fired central heating in house Microwave / George Forman Grill / Sandwich Maker /Toaster/Smoothie Maker Upstairs there are 3 double bedrooms -3 double beds. Bathroom - I bath. Shower -very high power luxury shower with 2 body jets Hot water is heated by oil fired Stanley / Electric Emersion There is a large garden at the bank and patio area with high boundary walls suitable for small children / pets Bed linen supplied.

Fuel and electricity charges included in rates

Cashel
"Secular and ecclesiastical history combine to make Cashel one of the most celebrated places in Munster  " extract  from The Shell Guide to Ireland. In 2010 the  Irish government  has  submitted  the Rock of Cashel  to  UNESCO  to be approved  as  a  World Heritage Site , a recogition much deserved. Cashel Heritage  Town  is in the  heart of  the Golden Vale - and  renowned  for its quality  dairy and  food  produce . Tourism  has  developed  over  time  in  slow  way  and  the  visitor will  experience  a  vibrant  community  that  has a  agricultural  base  and  many  fine  dining  opportunities and  exists and  functions in harmony with  tourism .

The town rarely gets the  time  from visitors  as  they  rush  to visit the  rock  in a  few  hours  and  rush to Killkenny , Waterford , or  Adare  all  within  90 minutes of the  town. There are  many gems in the  town  ranging from  two other  Abbeys - within the town  to explore and  no admission charges . St Domnics Abbey - on of the  first Dominian Abbeys in ireland  and  founded by David Mackelly. Hore Abbey - The Beneditines settled here from Glastonbury at the end of 12th Century  and  later Cistericansin 1272

From the fourth century, ‘Cashel of the kings’, on St Patrick’s Rock, developed as the royal seat of the Eoghanacht over-kings of Munster, several of whom were also churchmen, making the place an important Christian centre. In the late tenth century, the Eoghanacht dynasty (Mac Carthy) was displaced by Brian Boru, ancestor of the O’Briens of Thomond, who subsequently became over lord or ‘high-king’ of the whole of Ireland before his death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.

In 1101, the Synod of Cashel introduced the European ecclesiastical reform movement to Ireland and King Muirchertach Ua Briain gave Cashel to the Church. As diocesan organisation emerged, Cashel formally became, with Armagh, head of one of the first two archdioceses in the country. The site has seen many building phases; the current dramatic ruins on the Rock of Cashel consist of a round tower, the twelfth-century Romanesque Cormac’s Chapel, the remains of the thirteenth-century cathedral with fifteenth-century fortification, and some fifteenth-century domestic building.

The cathedral on the Rock was derelict from the time of its burning by Murrough O’Brien, Lord Inchiquin, in 1647, until it was re-edified for Anglican worship in 1686. When Theophilus Bolton became Church of Ireland Archbishop in 1729, he again repaired the cathedral for use, but it was abandoned by his successor in 1749. The Rock of Cashel, with its evocative ruins and associations, together with magnificent views over the fertile land of Tipperary, now attracts more tourists (over 250,000 in 2006) than any other built heritage site in the Republic of Ireland.

After their initial conquest of Ireland in 1169, the Cambro-Normans were quickly attracted to Cashel, both by its ecclesiastical prestige and its good land. A plannedurban settlement, which was enclosed by a town wall in the early fourteenth century, grew up adjacent to the Rock. The existing remains of the Cistercian Hore Abbey, just west of the Rock, and the Dominican friary in Moor Lane date from the thirteenth century. Remnants of building from the late medieval period onwards remain throughout the core of the town but most of the central building stock is of the eighteenth and, mainly, nineteenth centuries.

It is likely that the basic economic activity in and around Cashel has always been as it is now – a market centre for the surrounding agricultural area.
Its prestige derived, as it still does for tourists, from the signs of its ecclesiastical glories. Today Cashel has a population of around 2,500 and a history which brings many people to the Rock, but the possible attractions in the town itself are underestimated and underused. Following the abandonment of the ancient cathedral site on the Rock, the Church of Ireland Cathedral of St John the Baptist was built in an angle of the early fourteenth-century town walls of Cashel, on the site of the medieval church of St John. It is in the grounds of this Georgian cathedral that the Chapter House, which now houses the Bolton Library, was built in the 1830s.

The intrinsic value of the scholars’ library – the Bolton Library  and  well  worth a  visit by the visitor to the  town .The City Walls  are intact and  in the grounds of the Cathedral . There are regular  concerts and  recitals in the cathedral , check at the tourist office for details .

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