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 .
