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Blarney Castle

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Blarney Castle, Cork

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Blarney Castle, Cork - Reviews of Blarney Castle - IgoUgo
Located on the parapet of the castle is the famous Blarney Stone . According to local legend, after kissing this stone, you will have the gift of eternal eloquence, or the gift of the gab . To kiss the stone, you must first lie on your back, then leaning your head backwards and downwards, you kiss t...
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Blarney Castle - Home
Blarney Castle was built nearly six hundred years ago by one of Ireland’s greatest chieftains, Cormac MacCarthy, and has been attracting attention beyond Munster ever since. Not all of that has been welcome, as Good Queen Bess and Oliver Cromwell could testify. But over the last few hundred years,...
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Blarney Castle, Ireland
Blarney Castle was originally a timber hunting lodge built in the 10th century, which was replaced by a stone castle in 1210. The present day construction was completed by Dermot McCarthy, King of Munster in 1446. The Castle remained the ancestral stronghold of the McCarthy family until the arrival ...
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The Real Blarney Stone
. One of the stories says that an old woman cast a spell on the stone to reward a king who had saved her from drowning. Kissing the stone while under the spell gave the king the ability to talk sweetly. He was able to talk a...
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Blarney Castle, Ireland - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Blarney, village in southwestern Ireland, in county Cork, near the city of Cork. Textile manufacturing is the chief industry. The town is the site of Blarney Castle, constructed about the middle of the 15th century and containing the so-called Blarney Stone, an inscribed rock slab near the top of on...
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AllAboutIrish - Blarney Castle
The Castle was originally a hunting lodge, dating from the 10th century. It takes its name from the Irish An blarna, which means the plain. A stone castle that was begun in the early part of the 13th century and completed by Dermot McCarthy, King of Munster, in the middle of the 15th century replace...
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Blarney Castle, Blarney Castle History, Blarney Castle in Ireland, Medieval Blarney Castle
Blarney Castle history is an intriguing one. It was the third structure to be built on this site. The first one was a wooden structure built in the 10th century, and a stone structure replaced it in 1210 A.D. This building was torn down because of foundation problems, and the final, medieval Blarney...
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Blarney Castle Guide | Attraction Travel Guide
. Situated high in the battlements of the castle, the stone is thought to be half of the Stone of Scone, an ancient Scottish stone believed to have special powers. Those that kiss the stone are said to inherit the gift of eloquent speech. The castle itself began life as a 10th-century hunting lodge ...
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Blarney Castle
Just outside the medieval city of Cork is the world-famous Blarney Castle. You probably know this place for its famous stone, said to impart the gift of eloquence on those who kiss it. But to Irish cheese lovers, Blarney Castle is ground zero to one of the world's purest dairy pastures. It's also ho...
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Pictures of Blarney Castle - Ireland
Blarney Castle. There's a stone here everybody wants to kiss. Yuk! Don't they know the Blarney Stone was the Castle's latrine system. Latrines were normally situated over the moat so all the raw sewage will spill into the moat to dissuade any attacker from wading or otherwise crossing a virtual poop...
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Blarney Castle - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Blarney Castle
Castle at Blarney, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. One of Ireland's oldest castles, it consists mainly of a massive square keep with a battlemented parapet, built by Cormac Laidir MacCarthy about 1446. The 19th-century mansion house is also open to visitors, as well as the 18th-century grounds. Th...
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