Property Details

There is a large double bedroom (Sleeps two) - en suite with bath, shower and WC.
A kitchen & dining room leads to a large sitting room with French windows opening into a courtyard.
The accommodation is fully approved by Bord Failte, and has a four star rating.
The cottage is surrounded by six acres of gardens, and many more acres of fields and woodland.

Local Area Details

7 Golf courses within 25 minutes.
Angling, riding, hill walking, historic sites and gardens nearby.
Dublin and Rosslare - 1 hour.
The area is superbly situated for walking, being close to the well known
Wicklow Way, Lugnaquilla Mountain (second highest in Ireland) and the
River Barrow towpath.Wander at your leisure through over ten acres of Victorian Gardens and Pleasure Grounds at Lisnavagh.
Carlow Castle was probably built between 1207 and 1213 by William Marshall and was one of the major Anglo-Norman and 13th century English strongholds. It withstood serious attacks in 1494 and 1641, and was almost completely intact until 1814 when, rather unfortunately, a doctor decided to "redesign" the castle as an asylum. He somehow managed to blown up the foundations, and most of the castle collapsed!
Carlow Castle: blown up by "a ninny-pated physician of the name of Middleton, who had obtained a lease of it, & who was characteristically projected it into a Maison de Sante for the reception of lunatics, applied blasts of gunpowder for enlarging the windows and diminishing the walls, and brought down 2/3 of the pile into a rubbishy tumulus in memory of his surpassing presumption & folly". But, despite Dr. Middleton's best efforts, the remains of the keep still stand and are worth a visit.
Carlow's classical-style Court House was built in around 1830, and is one of the finest in Ireland.(It was designed for Cork city, but the plans got muddled up and it was accidentally built in Carlow!)
Carlow Court House was designed by William Vitruvius Morrison (who also built Oak Park, Carlow).Kilkenny
Kilkenny, where many of the buildings are built with local black marble, has an extremely interesting history. The town was bought by the Earls of Ormonde in 1391, when much of the town was created, and rivalled Dublin as the seat of Government. During the English Civil War in the 17th Century, Kilkenny became the seat of the Catholic Confederate Parliament, and this was the last native Irish parliament to have representatives from all parts of the island of Ireland. This time of prosperity ended when Oliver Cromwell besieged and took the city in 1650. The subsequent decline of the city was harsh, and even more so in the 19th century, leaving just one third of the population.Kilkenny Castle, although modified in the 19th century, retains some of the original features. Having been the Butler family seat since the 14th century, it was taken in May 1922 by anti-treatyites, and besieged by Free State Troopers, before being given to the city by the family.

Property Features

* Close to a golf course

Contact Information

Name:	Anny Staats
Telephone:	003149-3842-434
Alt Telephone:	003149-3843-424
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