Introducing Enniskerry & Powerscourt Estate
On a summer’s day there are few lovelier spots than the village of Enniskerry, replete with art galleries and the kind of all-organic gourmet cafés that would have you arrested if you admitted to eating battery eggs. It’s all a far cry from the village’s origins, when Richard Wingfield, earl of nearby Powerscourt, commissioned a row of terraced cottages for his labourers in 1760. These days, you’d want to have laboured pretty successfully to get your hands on one of them.
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Last updated: Sep 10, 2008
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RE: County Wicklow and West Cork
by fear_rua 04 September 2011
Also in Wicklow - Enniskerry is a pleasant little village, while the Blue Light, just outside Sandyford on Ballyedmonduff Road, is a pub…
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RE: Need help finding public transportation from Cahersiveen to Glendalough
by fear_rua 01 June 2011
Of course, as occurred to me afterwards, there is a feasible cycling route from Dublin to Glendalough that avoids most of the hills and…
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