- Is Glendalough open year round?
- Is there a charge to visit the monastery at Glendalough?
- How long do you need to visit Glendalough?
- This was founded by the legendary monk and hermit St Kevin, whose story also inspired the distillery founders and whose figure adorns the Glendalough bottles.
- The best known feature is the Glendalough Monastic Site with its iconic Round Tower and the ruins of a number of churches.
- If you've come to Wicklow, chances are that a visit to Glendalough (Gleann dá Loch, meaning 'Valley of the Two Lakes') is one of your main reasons.
- Glendalough is an Irish Craft distillery in County Wicklow on the Irish East Coast. Glendalough produces whiskey, gin and poitin onsite.
- It was known at one time as ‘the seven churches of Glendalough’, so was undoubtedly a very much larger place than it appears to-day.
- Glendalough distillery is located in a glacial valley nestled in the Wicklow mountains , not far from the famous (and ultra-touristy) monastic site of Glendalough .
- Glendalough is one of Ireland’s picture-perfect locations and home to some of the best walks in Wicklow.
- Outside the Monastic City you’ll find the Caher, an archaeological monument located on the lawns beside the Upper Lake in Glendalough.