Cashel, County Galway

53.370097222222 - 9.8224416666667Koordinaten: 53 ° 22 ' N, 9 ° 49 ' W

Cashel (Irish: An Caiseal ) is a city in County Galway in the province of Connacht. It is located west of Galway and southeast of Clifden, on the coast.

History

The name of Cashel / Caiseal derives accumulated from a circular earth and stone ring fort or Cashel called from. The Cashel surrounds an old part of the cemetery in Caiseal Ard / High Cashel, whose remains are 1 km northeast of the city on a slope of a mountain. The nearby Sacred Source, " Tobar Chonaill " is still frequently visited. On a rock on which the imprints of a child and a lamb are detected, votive offerings are laid down. The loin states that an English soldier, who defiled the place died on Meatl to tSaighdiúra / the small hills of the soldier.

In the West, Toombeola Bridge is located. This bridge is located near the remains of a Dominican monastery, which was built in 1427 by a member of the O'Flaherty clan, who had the dominion over Connemara until the reign of James II.

The small church of St. James is from 1912. Their glass painting with Elizabeth Rivers ( 1903-64 ) representation of St. Joseph as a worker and was completed after her death by Francis Biggs.

Cashel House was built in 1847 by Thomas Hazell of Dun Riachain for the wedding of his son. It was bought in 1919 by James O'Mara, the benefactor of Eamon de Valera and Sinn Fein MPs of Kilkenny and 1920 attacked several times. In 1952, Lt. Colonel Clayton Brown and purchased by the current owners in 1967 McEvilly, who opened it as a hotel. Charles de Gaulle spent two weeks in 1969 in Cashel, after he had given his resignation from the office of the President of the Republic of France known .. The gardens are cottage style gardens, which are based on a number of forest clearings. They show an abundance of roses and perennials. The " Walled Garden" ( walled garden, now called the secret garden ) was originally an orchard, where Jack O'Mara rare trees and shrubs planted around the world. Many of these trees are now the largest specimens in Ireland.

The hotel Zetland, originally " The Viceroy 's Rest " was named in honor of the Earl of Zetland, who used to visit it in the 1880 90s renamed. The jetty is near still comes from the O'Loghlen the first owners of the hotel. Behind the hotel is Cnocän Aifrinn / the little hill the show with a Mass rock at its south-facing slope near the summit.