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Bolton Library
The Bolton Library is in a forbidding 1836 stone building, and houses a splendid collection of books, maps and manuscripts from the dawn of printing onwards. There are works from Chaucer to Swift.
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Brú Ború
Cashel's heritage and cultural centre, Brú Ború is in a modern building next to the car park below the Rock of Cashel. The centre offers an absorbing insight into Irish traditional music, dance and song. It has a shop and café, but its main daytime attraction is Sounds of History, an exhibition in a subterranean chamber where the story of Ireland and its music is told through imaginative audio displays.
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Cashel Folk Village
The Cashel Folk Village is an engaging exhibition of old buildings and shopfronts from around the town, plus local memorabilia and an IRA museum.
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Cashel Heritage Town Centre
The Cashel Heritage Town Centre is located in the town hall. It has a model and displays showing how Cashel looked in the 1640s.
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Cormac's Chapel
If the Rock of Cashel boasted only Cormac's Chapel, it would still be an outstanding place. This compelling building dates from 1127, and the medieval integrity of its trans-European architecture survives. It was probably the first Romanesque church in Ireland.
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Hall of the Vicars Choral
The entrance to the Rock of Cashel is through this 15th-century building, once home to the male choristers who sang in the cathedral. It houses the ticket office. The exhibits in the adjoining undercroft include some very rare silverware, Bronze Age axes and St Patrick's Cross - an impressive, although eroded, 12th-century crutched cross with a crucifixion scene on one face and animals on the other. A replica stands outside, in the castle courtyard.
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Hore Abbey
The Rock of Cashel throws in another bonus for the heritage lover. This is the formidable ruin of 13th-century Hore Abbey, located in flat farmland just under 1km north of the Rock. Originally Benedictine and settled by monks from Glastonbury in England at the end of the 12th century, it later became a Cistercian house, gifted to the order by a 13th-century archbishop who expelled the Benedictine monks after dreaming that they planned to murder him.
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Rock of Cashel
The Rock of Cashel is one of Ireland's most spectacular archaeological sites. The 'Rock' is a prominent green hill, banded with limestone outcrops. It rises from a grassy plain on the outskirts of the town and bristles with ancient fortifications - the word 'cashel' is an anglicised version of the Irish word caiseal, meaning 'fortress'.
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Rock of Cashel's Cathedral
This 13th-century Gothic structure overshadows the other ruins. Entry is through a small porch facing the Hall of the Vicars Choral. The cathedral's western location is formed by the Archbishop's Residence, a 15th-century, four-storey castle that had its great hall built over the nave. Soaring above the centre of the cathedral is a huge, square tower with a turret on the southwestern corner.
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