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Extract from the Lismore Travel Guides:
Set in the lovely broad plain of the Blackwater Valley, three miles west of Cappoquin,
LISMORE
, recently designated a heritage town, has a significant ecclesiastical history. There's not much sign of this rich history today, but nevertheless the town does somehow manage to preserve a quiet reverence for its past. The town is dominated by the romantic towers and battlements of
Lismore Castle
(not open to the public), whose pale, white-grey stone, set with mullioned windows, rises magnificently on the hill from glorious woodlands and sumptuous
gardens
(May-Sept daily 1.45-4.45pm; 3/?3.81). The castle... read the whole Lismore Travel Guides...
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