| Last part more towns and Dublin at the end. Churches, castles and lakes. Glendalough was the last stop just before Dublin. It's a place near Dublin where city dwellers often go to country side to take a breather. It's is positioned 70 km south of Dublin among the hills. Of course hills surround a valley with two lakes at the end, so no wonder this was the basis for a settlement. You can se two lakes, which were probably a water source for the settlement in 600 AD. Now days you can see the remains of a monastic city with a big pointy tower in the middle of graveyards. The tower was a refuge place for the priests during viking incursions. It has no stairs, so the vikings couldn't follow the priests. Kilkenny church with graveyard. |
