Dear Friends of Tinney's Online Irish Shop,
are you travelling to Ireland this year? If you are then I would like to give you a few insider tips which might be of value to you!
Accomodation Tips
Let me begin by listing a few places to stay overnight which I can warmly recommend:
St.Aiden's Guesthouse
What a discovery this turned out to be! Marie McDonagh and Kevin Fox own and manage this beautiful red brick Dublin House in the quiet suburbs of Dublin. I liked this place the minute I laid eyes on it and I wasn't disappointed.
Marie McDonagh proved to be a kind and helpful hostess. So you know what I mean here are a couple of examples: having mentioned I would like to experience live traditional Irish Music, she phoned around and got me relevant information, or coming home tired one evening, and feeling the nip in the air, Marie had tea and cakes ready in a flash and put on a fire for me in her beautiful front room. Which brings me to the decor, all I can say is ... yes! It was tasteful and all the little special touches such as the little candles burning in the hall, made it all a very special experience for me. I stayed four nights.
Room en Suite with full Irish Breakfast €50
Normal room with TV (no shower or Toilet) €40
St.Aidens is very easy to get to: from Dublin Airport take the M50 south, leaving at Tallaght and taking the Templeogue Road then take the Terenure Road East and then Brighton Road.
From the Airport you should make it in 45 minutes.
St.Aiden's Guesthouse
32 Brighton Road
Rathgar
Dublin 6
Telephone 00353 1 490 2011 & 490 6178
e-mail staidens@eircom.net
I will place a link to St.Aiden's Homepage as soon as Kevin gets it up and running!
Brandon View B&B
This excellent Bed and Breakfast is to be found in one of the prettiest valleys in Ireland, the Barrow. It is an area rich in early Celtic Christian history. Take for example the High Cross of Moone and the not so famous High Crosses of Castledermott and the even less known High Crosses of Duiske Abbey or the old church of Ullard with it's beautiful door and sadly rather damaged High Cross.
The owner of Brandon View, which takes its name of course from the view to the Blackstair Mountains, is Helen Doyle. Friendly and helpful and a mine of information about the local area. She has a library of books about the Carlow Kilkenny area which the guests may borrow. The rooms are all en Suite, all new and tastefully furnished.
Breakfast was a treat, full Irish of course. Tea and cakes were served upon arrival and friendliness is in the very atmosphere of the house. St.Mullin's, is worth a visit, it is just a mile and a half up the road. Here all the Kings of Leinster are buried and the famous book of Mullin stems from here. If you are visiting Kilkenny then I recommend you take the R729 direction New Ross, then the R700 to Inistioge, Thomastown and Bennetsbride, then you will see the Barrow's sister the Nore Valley.
I stayed one night.
Brandon View
Rooms en Suite €42 full Irish Breakfast included.
Ballyling Lower,
Graignamanagh
Co.Kilkenny
Telephone 059 972 46 25
www.brandonviewbandb.com
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