The Gothic Abbey of Northanger is certainly one of the stars of Jane Austin’s novel of that name.
I watched the ITV production of this book last night on the tele (without much hope, considering the mess they had made of the same author’s Mansfield Park last week.)
They made a much better fist of this one.
Their choice of location for the Abbey while initially surprising was actually very suitable.
They picked one of Irelands most dramatically sited castles, Lismore in County Waterford.
The family rooms are sited so close to a steep drop down to the Suir below that apparently when King James stayed there he lept in fear back from his first view out the window.

I passed the Castle in December, in the evening , on the way to to my niece’s wedding in Longueville and it loomed so romantically out of the mist I couldn’t resist stopping the car to take this shot.