Imagine that you are immersed in an enormous bath, luxuriating in expensive bath oils. As you relax you experience weightlessness… you are floating in a tranquil amber tinted sea of unashamed luxury.
Tradition along the west coast of Ireland holds that the practice of bathing in hot water and Seaweed provides relief from painful symptoms of rheumatism and arthritis.
The therapeutic power of the Seaweed Bath is attributed to the high concentration of Iodine that occurs naturally in Sea Water and in Seaweed.
In 1912, the year of the “Titanic” the doors of Kilcullen’s Bath House opened for business. The Bath house had been built for the purpose on a site required by the Kilcullen Family as far back as 1898.
The Edwardian building at the time as ‘Kilcullen’s Modern Bath House’, an attempt to set it apart from a much older establishment dating from the middle of the 19th century, is today as it was then. Ironically it is that ‘modern’ building which now gives the Bath House its quaint Edwardian charm.
What you will experience
At the Bath House the “full treatment” comprises a “Steam & Seaweed Bath”. In concept their Steam bath is very similar to modern Sauna Baths but that is where the familiarity ends.
You are enclosed in your individual wooden cabinet with only your head exposed to the light of day. You can breathe fresh cool air as your body is gently seamed with pure moist vapour. The treatment is completed by taking a warm Seaweed Bath followed by an invigorating cold sea water shower.
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What is a seaweed bath?
In its growing process Seaweed extracts this Iodine from the surrounding Sea Water and concentrates it in its fronds to such an extent that some seaweeds have up to 20,000 times the concentration of Iodine of the water in which they grow.
As the name suggest it is a bath full of hot Sea Water with seaweed added but to confine the answer to a factual description is to do a great injustice to what it is, to the thousands of people who enjoy it, the ultimate bathing experience.
The silky oils are those extracted from Seaweed by a simple process, nothing is added, nothing is taken away, simply nature’s best. The water in your bath is seawater pumped in from the unpolluted waters of the Atlantic that lap on the shore just a stone’s throw away from your bathroom.
The amber tint in the water is caused by the extraction of Iodine from your seaweed, one of nature’s richest sources of this therapeutic element.
Massage therapy aavailable:
A Relaxing Therapeutic Message is the perfect complement to a Seaweed Bath. The combination of Bath and Massage induces a feeling of deep relaxation and well being. Their highly skilled therapists provide half hour or one hour sessions, by appointment.
About Enniscrone
Enniscrone is a brilliant seaside village right on the Wild Atlantic Way. You will experience a fabulous wide and expansive beach, enjoy a round of golf at one of the best links courses in the world and make the most of the water with the likes of a surf lesson or SUP (Stand Up Paddle) trip.
You will relax at in a seaweed bath and refuel with gorgeous food and award winning ice cream! It’s name in Irish is Inis Crabhann which is has ended up meaning loosely ‘at the river’.
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