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Ten miles south from Leighlinbridge, along the R705, is tiny BORRIS
, which you're most likely to visit if you're travelling through the
county by car or walking the South Leinster Way. It's not especially
attractive aside from its fresh air and one broad (fast) main road, the
R705, that sweeps down towards a striking backdrop formed by the ash-mottled
Blackstairs Mountains, but it's as good a place as any to stop in the
area. Mrs Susan Breen in Church Street does decent, inexpensive B&B (tel
0503/73231; £33-40/41.90-50.79) and The Step House , 66 Main St (tel
0503/73209; £55-70/69.84-88.88) is a fine Georgian guesthouse. You can
camp by the disused train line and get your provisions from O'Shea's bar
and shop .
The Green Drake Inn serves snacks and lunches every day till 6pm, and
more expensive meals until 9.30pm. Considering its size, there's a lot
going on in Borris, with live music several nights of the week, mostly
in the singalongs and ballads category: try The Green Drake Inn (Wednesday
is Irish night, Sunday for music and dancing), O'Connors or O'Shea's .
This last doubles up as a hardware store so you can sup your pint
leaning on a bacon slicer, keeping a weather-eye on the hacksaws and
sink plungers dangling from the ceiling.
East of Borris, the South Leinster Way leaves the intimate landscape of
the valleys, crossing the open farmland of south Carlow and eventually
skirting the bleak height of Mount Leinster. The way finally descends to
the lonely cluster of houses which makes up Kildavin, six miles or so
from Mount Leinster on the main Carlow-Enniscorthy road.
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