Day Trips from Dublin - Dublin - page 359

DON'T MISS
» Round Tower
» St Kevin's Church
» St Kevin's Bed
PRACTICALITIES
» 25km south of Dublin
» To drive, take the N11 south to Kilmacanogue, then R755 west through Roundwood, Annamoe and Laragh.
» St Kevin's Bus ( www.glendaloughbus.com ; 1½ hr) departs 11.30am & 6pm Mon-Sat, 11.30am & 7pm Sun
from outside the Royal College of Surgeons, St Stephen's Green West. It returns at 7.15am & 4.15pm Mon-Fri,
9.45am & 4.15pm Sat & Sun.
GUIDED TOURS
The award-winning Wild Wicklow Tour ( 01-280 1899; www.wildwicklow.ie ; adult/student & child €28/25;
departs 9am) of Glendalough, Avoca and the Sally Gap never fails to generate rave reviews for atmosphere and all-
round fun, but so much craic has made a casualty of informative depth. Alternatively, Bus Éireann ( 01-836 6111;
www.buseireann.ie ; Busáras; adult/child/student €29/23/25; departs 10am mid-Mar-Oct) runs good but slightly im-
personal whole-day tours of Glendalough and the Powerscourt Estate, which return to Dublin at about 5.45pm.
Many bullaun , such as the Deer Stone, were widely regarded as having supernatural properties; women who
bathed their faces with water from the hollow were supposed to keep their looks forever. Early churchmen
brought them into their monasteries, perhaps hoping to inherit some of the stones' powers.