Bagenalstown Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
town in county Carlow, Leinster, Ireland
About Bagenalstown
It is far from obvious that this place was modelled onVersailles, yet such was the boast of "Lord" Walter Bagenal (1670-1745). All over 18th and 19th century Europe, plutocrats sat down with the interior designers and the pattern book and said "yes likethat, only with better-endowed girls and boys on the bathroom fittings, and much more gilt, and leave out the guillotine." They've bequeathed us a series of glitzy bling palaces that briefy impress on arrival, but somehow don't linger in the memory. Many have succumbed to time but modern ones keep appearing; name the plutocrat of your choice. The parallel was that Dublin like Paris was dirty, tumbledown and dangerous. Better to build anew, on a classical grid pattern, and make this the power-base: imagine the ambassadors, artists and supplic
Top Attractions in Bagenalstown
Explore the best things to see and do in Bagenalstown:
- ★Shankill Castle
Where to Eat in Bagenalstown
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Matty's Pub
- 🍴Railway House
Where to Stay in Bagenalstown
- 🏨Corriebeg Cottage
- 🏨Kilgraney House
- 🏨Orchard Grove
Bagenalstown Travel Guide Sections
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