Cashel
[key] [Irish,=castle], town, Co. Tipperary, S central Republic of
Ireland. An agricultural market, it was formerly the ancient capital of the
kings of Munster and was the stronghold of Brian Boru. On the Rock of Cashel,
rising 300 ft (91 m) in the center of town, are the ruins of the
13th-century St. Patrick's Cathedral, a round tower (10th cent.), an ancient
cross, and Cormac's Chapel (12th cent.). Below the Rock are the ruins of
Hore Abbey (1272). Cashel is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop and of
an Anglican bishop.
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