The best and most exciting way of getting to know any town is to walk around it. Kinsale, based on the site of a sixth-century religious settlement, is a town of many small winding streets, with buildings of every vintage ranging from the twelfth century onwards. It historical connections include the Normans, the Battle of Kinsale, the Anglo-French wars and the American Revolution. Even Robinson Crusoe (in the form of his real-life model, Alexander Selkirk) gets a look-in.
The Ghost Tour, which lasts 75 minutes, is conducted after dark, starting from
the Tap Tavern
.
(CP 2003 delegates will be taken to the Tap Tavern but independent souls can
find it at the junction of Guard Well and Higher O'Connell streets on this 3-dimensional map -- just beside the 12th-century St. Mulsose church.)
Participants learn a lot about the town on this tour where figures from the town's history appear at the most surprising moments. Each tour group is limited to about 50 people, so three tours will be arranged during the course of Tuesday evening/night, 30 September, at the following times: