The stone was put into a tower of the Blarney Castle in 1446 and has become one of Ireland’s most successful tourist attractions. As the legends go, if one kisses the stone, they are said to be ...

Besides the stone, Blarney Castle, crowded in summer ... “It’s such a unique experience,” says Paul O’Sullivan, 33, of Cork, Ireland, the marketing manager at Blarney Castle.

Many tourists who visit Ireland make a point of kissing the Blarney stone. I’d always envisioned a large stone somewhere in Ireland with a carving on the side — and imagined that folks who ...

This refers to a stone at the top of Blarney Castle in County Cork in southeastern Ireland. Legend says that, if you kiss it -- by laying upside down, holding guardrails, and tipping your head ...

But no matter. For me, kissing the Blarney Stone had tremendous value and meaning. My parents went to Ireland for their honeymoon in August of 1971. They had gotten married two months earlier but ...

While Blarney Castle is not the biggest castle in Ireland, nor the oldest — that ... kiss its famous Blarney Stone. According to legend, puckering up to the hulking, rather grimy, extremely ...

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Defending the history of the stone and its name as one of the must-see sights in Ireland, Blarney Castle owner Sir Charles Colthurst denied that you could catch anything from a quick kiss when th ...