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We started our holiday in "the Garden of Ireland": County Wicklow, just south of Dublin. |
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| A look out over the amazing gardens of Powerscourt Estate, a 64 square kilometer 14th century estate. The gardens were originally laid out in the 1740s. |
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| The Pepperpot Tower in the Powerscourt Estate gardens. The tower is modeled on an actual three inch pepperpot. |
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| A seaman's memorial at the shore in Wicklow Town, which is right on the Irish Sea. Some of the Wickow Mountains are visible in the distance. |
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| Toasting our 10th wedding anniversary in the lovely gardens behind our inn. We stayed at Hunter's Hotel, the oldest and most historic coaching inn in Ireland, dating from around 1700. |
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| The ethereal Lough Tay near Sally Gap, one of the two main east-west passes across the Wicklow Mountains. |
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| One of the remnants of the Black Castle, a 12th century fortification on the eastern edge of Wicklow Town. |
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