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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; GBP33-40/41.90-50.79) and The Step House , 66 Main St (tel 0503/73209; GBP55-70/69.84-88.88) 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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