{"id":849,"date":"2021-11-02T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T08:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/?p=849"},"modified":"2021-11-02T08:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T08:08:58","slug":"the-kilcooly-abbey-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/2021\/11\/02\/the-kilcooly-abbey-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kilcooly Abbey experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-850\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/B08EC4DF-2A17-4B1E-AD3E-EFC4709FDE7F-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/B08EC4DF-2A17-4B1E-AD3E-EFC4709FDE7F-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/B08EC4DF-2A17-4B1E-AD3E-EFC4709FDE7F.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As always happens we made our way for an early morning walk to Kilcooly today. It was as ever a wonderful experience. Benson was not on form as there were too many deer crossing the path and he missed all of them. Anyway we made it to the Abbey after stepping through about a thousand tonnes of cow shit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-851\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A4D13CB7-F098-4082-9DC4-931CB52C9494-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A4D13CB7-F098-4082-9DC4-931CB52C9494-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A4D13CB7-F098-4082-9DC4-931CB52C9494.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a magical place steeped in hundreds of years of history. Eventually it was closed as a working monetary during the Cromwell years and turned into a folly for the main house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-855\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A3A85A83-EB69-4443-80F5-F03766ED07A6-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A3A85A83-EB69-4443-80F5-F03766ED07A6-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A3A85A83-EB69-4443-80F5-F03766ED07A6.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><br \/>\nAt the right time you get the best view of the main hall and can imagine the sunlight streaming through the original stained glass window. The carvings were done by a famous Tipperary stone mason \u00a0For that reason the office of public works maintain the abbey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-856\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F3E4F61F-CE2F-401B-8C93-F298ACE97E2F-300x208.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F3E4F61F-CE2F-401B-8C93-F298ACE97E2F-300x208.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F3E4F61F-CE2F-401B-8C93-F298ACE97E2F.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-853\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FB5B7423-AA2B-4A00-AA42-462812AF7F3E-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FB5B7423-AA2B-4A00-AA42-462812AF7F3E-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FB5B7423-AA2B-4A00-AA42-462812AF7F3E.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-854\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F545F622-7892-41AB-81FF-B7A81492F08F-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F545F622-7892-41AB-81FF-B7A81492F08F-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/F545F622-7892-41AB-81FF-B7A81492F08F.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-852\" src=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/60147A2E-374F-4405-89D4-72DE75E53468-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/60147A2E-374F-4405-89D4-72DE75E53468-208x300.jpeg 208w, https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/60147A2E-374F-4405-89D4-72DE75E53468.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-849\" data-postid=\"849\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-849 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always happens we made our way for an early morning walk to Kilcooly today. It was as ever a wonderful experience. Benson was not on form as there were too many deer crossing the path and he missed all of them. Anyway we made it to the Abbey after stepping through about a thousand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookydaffodils.com\/wp55\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}