Kilkenny sightseeing

AKLR · Veteran Member

Kilkenny sightseeing

Michele Erdvig · Host

Sue,

My book has directions on how to find the best entrance into Kells Priory. It is not toward Thomastown. If you have enough daylight you can see Kells after Kilkenny City as it is always open. But you do have a lot packed into that day so it may fall by the wayside.

What about the Rock of Cashel? You could see it and Cahir Castle on your drive to Kenmare. You might even squeeze in Kells if you start early enough.

Michele

tony2phones · Guru

I can only duplicate my answer;-

You pretty much have everything covered.

Don't over plan, leave some flexibility and go with the flow. Heading where the wind and the weather guides you is a far more relaxed way of doing things. You are on holiday not delivering parcels if you don't make somewhere on the list no problem, but the more on the list the more you will think you have missed out on.

You will not see everything you want to see in a one hit trip Ireland (or anywhere else for that matter) isn't made that way.

AKLR · Veteran Member

Michele,

Thanks and we'd thought about stopping at the Rock of Cashel as well as Cahir on our our day to Kenmare so our timing that day will determine that.I did rather want to see the castle in Cahir, so not sure what all we'll get to on that day. That was rather my question, it seems like I have a number of ruins for this leg of our journey, and we can't see them all in two days that we'll be in this area (As Tony says, we may find we want to stay at one longer and miss others, which is fine) I'd thought Glendalough, Kells Proiry, Jerpoint Abbey and The rock of Cashel, were all ruins of some sort or other and in reading about them, the history of each is what's different as well as what's left of the buildings. That's why I was interested in your post's opinion of each. I also know we can't fit everything I've mentioned while in Kilkenny in one day, but these all seemed of interest to my husband and I so will see what we can and won't be sorry if we miss something else.

Sue

Michele Erdvig · Host

Sue,

Although Jerpoint Abbey is worth seeing it would be well down on my "must see" list. They close on the dot of posted closing time and the last tour is usually an hour before that. Yes, there are a lot of ruins in Ireland. You can thank the Reformation and Cromwell for a lot of that.

Michele

Geno · Guru

Corey and Liam at Irish Fireside have a wonderful walking tour online that we used while in Kilkenny. It is a nice way to go if you do not know the city well.

Geno

AKLR · Veteran Member

Thanks, that's what we'd like. We like to explore on our own, but you learn so much about the sights from locals.

Michele Erdvig · Host

Sue,

Here is the link to the walking tour of Kilkenny: http://www.knockahopple.com/downloadkilkenny.html

There is a guided walking tour several times a day from the tourist office, which you pay for.

Michele