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There’s nothing like a good… (slight anticipatory wincing may be detected) cloister. You can have your pipal tree for finding knowledge or an olive grove for Socratic paradox. However, if you live in a climate with, well, weather: (http://www.met.ie/climate/rainfall.asp), you need some sort of cover. So if you’re going to have cover, let us make it look good, have an aspect to some inside grassy stuff, or garth, around which one can contemplate one’s navel. This particular cloister is at the Jerpoint Abbey just down the N9 from Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. If you decide that you rather like the odd cloister, have a gander at these http://www.hayquesufrir.com/products.php?cat=48.



NB: An additional attraction of the Abbey is its proximity to the Ethos Bistro in Thomastown. Excellent food!