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Extract from the Adare Travel Guides:
Famously picturesque
ADARE
has cultivated nearly as many antiques shops as pubs. In peak season, it will more than likely be infested with tourists taking photos of the wayside cottages that sit in a neat row, their quaint deep-brown thatch hanging in low fringes. The cottages represent the nineteenth-century ideal of romanticized rusticity, as realized by the third Earl of Dunraven (1812-71), landlord and master of Adare Manor and an eternal improver of circumstances for his tenants. Given that Adare is now probably regarded as the prettiest (and, it must be added, prissiest) village in Ireland, it's hard to believe that before the ea...
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