Less than a 10 minute walk, Kilcullen's Bath House opened for business in 1912. The Bath House had been built for the purpose on a site acquired by the Kilcullen family as far back as 1898. The Edwardian building hailed 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.
The Benefits of Seaweed Baths.
Tradition along the West Coast of Ireland holds that the practice of bathing in hot water and seaweed provides relief from the 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 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.
