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Enniskerry & Powerscourt Estate
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About 500m south of the charming village of Enniskerry is the entrance to the 64- sq-km
Powerscourt Estate, Wicklow's grandest country pile. This is one of the most popular day
trips from Dublin, and the village - built in 1760 by Richard Wingfield, Earl of Power-
scourt, so that his labourers would have somewhere to live - is a terrific spot to while
away an afternoon.
The Best...
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Sight
Formal Gardens (
Click here
)
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Place to Eat
Poppies Country Cooking (
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)
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Place to Stay
Summerhill House Hotel (
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)
Top Tip
You can visit Powerscourt and Glendalough together as part of a
Bus Éireann Tour
( 01-836
6111;
www.buseireann.ie
;
Busáras; adult/child/student €28/22/25; 10am mid-Mar-Oct)
, which departs from
the Dublin Discover Ireland Centre (
Click here
). Dublin Bus Tours (
Click here
)
includes
a visit in its four-hour 'South Coast & Gardens' tour, which takes in the stretch of coast-
line between Dun Laoghaire and Killiney before turning inland to Wicklow and on to En-
niskerry. Admission to the gardens is included.
Getting There & Away
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Bus
Dublin bus 44 (€2.50, 1¼ hours, every 20 minutes) from city centre.
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Car
South to Bray along N11 and west for 3km on R117.
