Maynooth, Ireland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

There really isn't all that much to detain you in MAYNOOTH , pretty though it is (pronounced "ma-nooth", with the stress on the second syllable; frequent trains from Dublin's Pearse, Tara Street and Connolly stations and #66 buses from Wellington Quay). The town is renowned chiefly for its seminary, St Patrick's College , which, in addition to training priests, now houses a branch of the National University of Ireland. Visitors are welcome to tour the college's forbidding grey quadrangles, leavened by Virginia creepers and ornamental gardens, and can buy a useful historical … more »