Baltinglass

Baltinglass, historically called Baltinglas, is a metropolis in south-west County Wicklow, Ireland. It is located on the River Slaney near the border with County Carlow and County Kildare, on the N81 street. Its Irish call approach "the manner of Conglas", Conglas being a member of the mythological warrior collective, the Fianna. A preceding Irish-language name for the village, bringing to thoughts its monastic past, changed into Mainistir an Bhealaigh. The surrounding hills of the area is wealthy in archaeological and historical web sites, inclusive of the Rathcoran passage structure.

On the highest point of the Baltinglass hill, north-east of the village, the passage grave from the stone age whose outer partitions are completed in chalk not native to the region, is stated on shiny days to be visible from Kildare's Curragh forty eight km away. To the north quit of the village at the weir of the River Slaney lies the ruins of an historical monastery, Baltinglass Abbey, that has had many additions over the centuries; the authentic church is said to this point from around seven-hundred A.D.