{"id":267497,"date":"2026-01-28T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:58:07","slug":"timoleague-and-quin-abbeys-could-be-irelands-carcassonne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267497\/","title":{"rendered":"Timoleague and Quin abbeys could be Ireland&#8217;s Carcassonne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">You cannot truly say you have been to Ireland until you have driven into the village of Quin, County Clare, on the road that travels west from Scarriff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rounding a bend, you catch your first glimpse of the wonderful abbey with its slender tower rising from a sturdy limestone base. The people of West Cork might argue that the approach to Timoleague is even more striking than the approach to Quin. And then, of course, there\u2019s Cashel\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You cannot truly say you have been to Ireland until you have driven into the village of Quin,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48476,2284,61,60,43,131444,131443,103050,131446,131442,131445,12785,6306,56882],"class_list":{"0":"post-267497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-travel-local","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-place-carcassonne","14":"tag-place-cashel","15":"tag-place-cork","16":"tag-place-quin","17":"tag-place-timoleague","18":"tag-place-tipperary","19":"tag-religion","20":"tag-tourism","21":"tag-travel-destinations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}