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Can be reached hiking & biking and by boat (and short walk).
The boats will transport bikes as well.

The story of Lord Brandon is an interesting one. Various legends are associated with the stone tower and cottage at the top of the upper lake in Killarney.

Very little is left of the old structures, with exception to a crumbling tower where, according to local folklore, Lord Brandon imprisoned his young wife after hearing that she had had an affair with Lord Melbourne, Britain’s future PM.

The situation was taken to court in 1829 after Lord Brandon found intimate letters between the two and the issue was a major sensation in the UK.

Indeed, a broken Lord Brandon went off to mainland Europe to hide from the spotlight. After this the cottage fell into a sorry state.

There’s a couple of different tales behind why the tower near Lord Brandon’s Cottage was built. The first is that it was constructed for Lord Brandon so that he could shoot deer from an elevated point.

The second tale says that the tower was built to give Brandon’s wife ‘freedom’, as she had complained that she was deprived of fresh air. Freedom… while still locked up.

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Location: Kerry, Munster, Ireland

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