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Extract from the Enniskerry Travel Guides:
The little village of
ENNISKERRY
, twelve miles south of Dublin, forms a popular stopping-off point for visitors heading for Powerscourt House, just a mile or so to the west (daily 9.30am-5.30pm, winter times may vary;
www.powerscourt.ie;
1.50/1.90). It was here, in the heart of the Pale, that the Anglo-Irish were at their most confident and relaxed. Powerscourt is a particularly bold statement of a theme repeated all over Ireland: big houses with adjoining tied villages. But in Powerscourt's case, the 14,000-acre estate stands as a sort of metaphor for the passing of the power of the Ascendancy. For Powerscourt is a...
read the whole Enniskerry Travel Guides...
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