The Rock of Cashel is a 45 minute drive from Dairy
Guesthouse
Cashel
derives its name from Caiseal Mumhan meaning the stone fort of
 Munster.
In the centre of the town is a 1730 mansion, Cashel Palace Hotel.
Guinness was first brewed here. It
was designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and was once the home of the Protestant
Archbishop. There are two Mulberry trees in the gardens dating back to Queen
Mary. Quirkes castle (Kearneys castle) a former tower house shows battlements
and gargoyles. It is now a hotel. The G.P.A. Bolton Library is situated in the
grounds of the Church of Ireland. It houses a rare collection of books and
manuscripts. The Town Hall is now the home of
Cashel Heritage Centre
and also has a museum. On the way to the Rock (St.
Patricks Cathedral) is the Dominican Friary it was founded in 1243 it has a
beautiful 13th C East window. About a quarter of a mile West of the Rock is a
Cistercian Abbey (Hore Abbey Right below) founded in 1266, it is a sister Abbey
to Mellifont.
Hore Abbey
 The
13th century Hore Abbey is set in farmland just a few hundred yards from the
base of the Rock of Cashel. It was the last daughter house - a religious house
which was affiliated to the main monastery - of Mellifont's Cistercians and was
a gift from a 13th century archbishop who expelled the Benedictine monks after
dreaming that they had plans to murder him.
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