A 60m-high limestone outcrop topped by a group of buildings, the Rock of Cashel is Ireland’s Acropolis. Evoking Celtic Christianity and the high kings of Ireland, Cashel’s jewel is Cormac’s Chapel ; the perfectly preserved 28m-high round tower is ma..

The jewel of Cashel was built between 1127 and 1134 by Cormac MacCarthy. In elaborate Romanesque style, it is flanked by two towers. Inside is one of Ireland’s oldest wall paintings. Each stone here is embellished by sculpture, the finest of the peri..

Bolton Library occupies a small 1836 building found on the lawns around the cathedral. The oldest book among the 12,000 volumes on the library's shelves is a monks' encyclopaedia dated 1168. It also contains two pages from Chaucer's The Book of Fame..

The Palace Gardens, which lead up to the rock, contain an ancient mulberry tree (1702) and hop plants descended from those used in 1759 to produce the first brown ale. This was invented by Richard Guinis, steward of the archbishop of Cashel, whose so..

In 1272, monks from Mellifont founded Hore Abbey, the last Cistercian institution to be built in Ireland. The ruins date back primarily to the 13C. The cruciform church comprised, in addition to the chancel, a nave with aisles and two chapels to the ..

The history of the town is displayed in the Heritage Centre, with a model and an exhibition of royal jewellery, as well as relics from the house of McCarthy Mor.

This austere Anglican building was built with hardly any ornament between 1749 and 1784. It stands on the site of the former St. John the Baptist parish church, to whom it was dedicated together with Saint Patrick of the Rock. On the neighbouring law..

This friary, founded in 1243 by Archbishop David MacKelly (Dáibhi MacCeallaigh), a Dominican born in Cork, was suppressed in 1540. Its church, which was rebuilt in 1480 after being destroyed in a fire, has a long, narrow nave and choir. The chancel a..

This church, dedicated to John the Baptist and hidden by a row of cottages, is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Ireland and was inaugurated in 1795. The mosaics of the facade were added to commemorate the Eucharistic Congress which took place in I..