Tag: Blarney Castle

#OTD in 2009 – Blarney Stone voted ‘most unhygienic tourist attraction in the world’.

11/06/2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Ever since Cormac McCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, was granted the eloquence to win a lawsuit by the goddess Clíodhna*, the Blarney Stone has conferred the gift of gab on all who kiss. Mind you, this isn’t easy to do. You have to climb to the top of the castle then dangle backwards over […]

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#OTD in 2009 – Blarney Stone voted ‘most unhygienic tourist attraction in the world’.

11/06/2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Ever since Cormac McCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, was granted the eloquence to win a lawsuit by the goddess Clíodhna*, the Blarney Stone has conferred the gift of gab on all who kiss. Mind you, this isn’t easy to do. You have to climb to the top of the castle then dangle backwards over […]

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#OTD in 2009 – Blarney Stone voted ‘most unhygienic tourist attraction in the world’.

11/06/2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Ever since Cormac McCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, was granted the eloquence to win a lawsuit by the goddess Clíodhna*, the Blarney Stone has conferred the gift of gab on all who kiss. Mind you, this isn’t easy to do. You have to climb to the top of the castle then dangle backwards over […]

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#OTD in 2009 – Blarney Stone voted ‘most unhygienic tourist attraction in the world’.

12/06/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Ever since Cormac McCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, was granted the eloquence to win a lawsuit by the goddess Clíodhna*, the Blarney Stone has conferred the gift of the gab on all who kiss it (you are likely to end up with something else other than fluent speech as it is so germ ridden). […]

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#OTD in 2009 – Blarney Stone voted ‘most unhygienic tourist attraction in the world’.

12/06/2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Ever since Cormac McCarthy, the builder of Blarney Castle, was granted the eloquence to win a lawsuit by the goddess Clíodhna*, the Blarney Stone has conferred the gift of the gab on all who kiss it (you are likely to end up with something else other than fluent speech as it is so germ ridden). […]

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