Guide: Lucy O’Reilly, local historian and tour guide.
Meet at: The Headfort Arms Hotel at 11.30 am for coffee / tea & scones afterwards proceeding to Killua Castle for a tour (where is possible by kind permission of the owner, Allen Krause, to have a picnic) followed by a guided tour of the Monastic town of Kells. Dinner at Headfort Arms Hotel, Kells Co. Meath.
Book by 22 June at the latest.
Please see 2018ExcursionForm.
Members only.
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