Tipperary · Ireland
In the destination Kilkenny and the Rock of Cashel.
In the photo: Hore Abbey
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Cashel is a small town in County Tipperary, at the foot of the Rock of Cashel, the limestone hill where the kings of Munster sat, crowned by a round tower, Cormac's Romanesque chapel and a roofless Gothic cathedral. In the fields just below are the ruins of Hore Abbey, a 13th-century Cistercian monastery.
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The local experience
Limestone hill that was the seat of the kings of Munster, given to the Church in 1101, with the round tower, Cormac's Romanesque chapel from 1134, the 13th-century Gothic cathedral and the Hall of the Vicars.
Ruins of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1272 in a field just below the Rock of Cashel, with the church, the tower and the view of the Rock high on the hill.
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