{"id":59293,"date":"2025-03-19T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/?page_id=59293"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:03:45","slug":"wonder-wander-walking-trail-castlecomer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/ga\/places-to-visit\/kilkenny\/wonder-wander-walking-trail-castlecomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Wander Walking Trail: Castlecomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage has partnered with Kilkenny County Council to create <em>Wonder Wander Walking Trails<\/em>.\u00a0 The <em>Wonder Wander Walking Trails<\/em> have been developed in collaboration with the local communities.\u00a0 In addition to well-known public buildings, each trail shines a light on some of the lesser known architectural details and the stories that are associated with these unique places.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Wonder Wander Walking Trail<\/em> for Castlecomer begins at its elegant five-arch bridge and takes in numerous architectural set pieces including the cupola-topped courthouse and the neo-Gothic Catholic church.\u00a0 Castlecomer boasts a wealth of fine shopfronts, most in a Classical style, but keep an eye out for the once-common but now rare canopied shopfront in Barrack Street.\u00a0 Other highlights include a grand house which was once home to a pram factory, a row of red brick houses named after the wife of the landlord of the town, and a small group of Arts and Crafts houses designed by an architect who lived to read his own obituary!<\/p>\n<p>Click on the cover below to download your\u00a0<em>free<\/em> Wonder Wander Walking Trail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wonder-Wander-Castlecomer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buildingsofireland.ie\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Wonder-Wander-Castlecomer-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage has partnered with Kilkenny County Council to create Wonder Wander Walking Trails.\u00a0 The Wonder Wander Walking Trails have been developed in collaboration with the local communities.\u00a0 In addition to well-known public buildings, each trail shines a light on some of the lesser known architectural details and the stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59260,"parent":85,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"views\/template-place-to-visit.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59293","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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