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Locals
Attractions & Amenities |
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This is an
ideal base for touring the delights of Tipperary
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Golf
Roscrea Golf Club is a treat to play.
The par-3s in particular are superb, with the sixth hole being the favourite
of many who have visited the course over the years.
Web:
Roscrea Golf Club
Tel: 0505 21130 |
Esker Hills Golf
Club
Tel: 0579 355999
Christy O'Connor says of this Tullamore
course :
"Designing Esker Hills gave me enormous satisfaction, plotting the course
through native sand hills and valleys".
Birr Golf Club
Tel: 0509 20082
Offers a wonderful parkland golf course. Here you are assured of a real
Irish welcome at our modern golf course with full bar and restaurant
facilities.
Mountrath Golf
Club
Tel: 057 8732643
With the Slieve Bloom Mountains nestle in the background, this course
presents a challenge to any golfer and is guaranteed to test the driving,
pitching and putting ability of the best.
Rathdowney Golf
Club
Tel: 0505 46170
Matured parkland course wit challenging holes and fairways
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Walking
The Slieve Bloom
Mountains offer some of the best walking, hill walking and trekking
opportunities in Ireland.
They are suitable for most grades of walkers because they are not too high
or steep - mountain climbers should look elsewhere! |
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But the great attraction to
the hill walker and leisure walker alike is their unspoiled beauty, and the
fact that they are off the tourist track. You could walk for days and hardly
meet a person. The villages that surround the Slieve Blooms are similarly
quiet and unspoiled.
Websites :
Slieve Bloom
Fairy Mount Farm
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Fishing
Wonderful new facilities including parking area and wheelchair access,
barbeque area.
Ideal for corporate events. Equipment rental.
Web:
www.laoisanglingcentre.ie
Tel: Enda at (0)87 9962864 |
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Mount St. Joseph Abbey
Founded in 1878 by a group of 32 Monks from Mount
Melleray, Co. Waterford. The property was acquired for the monks by Count
Arthur Moore, M.P. for Tipperary, and given to the monks for a third of the
purchase price. The church was opened for worship in 1883.
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Three foundations have been
made from Mount Saint Joseph - Nunraw (Scotland) in 1946, Tarrawarra
(Australia) in 1954, and Bolton (Co. Kildare) in 1964. Mount Saint Joseph is
located just outside the town of Roscrea at the heart of Ireland’s Midlands.
This region is dotted with ancient Celtic monastic sites and the ruins of
medieval monasteries. The Monastery is built of local grey limestone on the
traditional monastic plan.
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Roscrea Round Tower
The tower is part of an old monastic complex that is now bisected by the
road to Portlaoise, with the facade of the old church and the much-weathered
high cross directly across the street. The earliest mention of the round
tower when it was struck by lightning in 1131. |
Most likely the Round Tower
also dates to this early twelfth century period. The tower was said to be
inhabited as late as 1815. In photographs from the 1860's, a millpond laps
against the rear or the tower. The pond is now drained and the adjoining
Manor Mills are being restored to house a simple exhibition on Monastic
Roscrea. As well as housing St Cronan's Cross (the original high cross will
be placed inside the mill exhibition area and a replica placed on its
original site), it will also display the ninth century decorated Roscrea
pillar, probably of Monaincha origin.
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La Serenata Cafe
La Serenata overlooks The Mall river in Roscrea. Kamel and Sami are the
proud owners and head chefs of this fine establishment in the town,
providing fine Italian cuisine for the locals.
La Serenata also offers a fine Take Away menu. |
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Other Restaurants
Fiachri House
Tel: 0505 43017
Racket Hall Hotel
Tel: 0505 21748
The Tower
Tel: 0505 21774
Grants Hotel
Tel: 0505 23300
Dragon Inn |
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