Enniscrone/Ireland
Kilcullen's Seaweed Baths
An Edwardian seaweed bath house on the Sligo coast, working since 1912.
Owen Doody
- Baño
- Interior
- Fundado en
- 1912
Kilcullen's stands on the shore at Enniscrone with its original 1912 interior largely intact: private cubicles, deep porcelain baths, brass taps and cedar steam cabinets. Hot seawater is poured over freshly cut serrated wrack, which releases its oils until the water turns amber and slippery.
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Por qué visitarlo
It is the most complete surviving example of Ireland's Victorian and Edwardian seaweed bathing tradition, still run by the same family and still using seaweed cut from the rocks nearby.
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El agua
Agua termal
- Manantial
- Atlantic seawater with Fucus serratus
- Mineralización
- Heated seawater infused with hand-cut serrated wrack
- Carácter
- Seawater is heated and poured over fresh seaweed, whose alginates and iodine turn the bath amber and gel-like.
Historia
Seaweed bathing was widespread along Ireland's west coast in the nineteenth century, with hundreds of bath houses serving working people. Kilcullen's opened in 1912 and, unusually, never closed or modernised away its fittings, surviving the near-disappearance of the tradition elsewhere.
Información práctica
Baths are private and booked by the hour; the steam cabinet is taken before the bath. Seaweed oils will condition skin and hair — bring nothing you mind getting slippery.
Cómo llegar
On the seafront at Enniscrone, about 45 minutes west of Sligo town.
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