Blarney castle is about about five miles northwest of the town of Cork, Ireland. Here's the Google map of the site. Most of the ruins that are left 
of the castle proper date shortly after 1446, but the castle itself was first built sometime before 1200. Today the grounds contain ruins of the mid-fifteenth century castle, and a few buildings. The building include Blarney House, a fairly typical nineteenth century mansion built in 1874 by the castle's new English owner, and now open to the public. The grounds encompass landscaping and a series of gardens from the eighteenth century. And, of course, the Blarney stone.
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