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Experience Limerick Tours Experience Limk NEW FNL.qxp_History & Heritage v1 15/07/2015 14:27 Page 1 Limerick VISITOR INFORMATION Experience OVERVIEW and to bring your Limerick Where To Stay START: Limerick city LIMERICK experience to For details of accommodation in Limerick City and County, as well as attractions and DURATION: 3 – 4 days life, why not take activities or to make a reservation, please call to: TOURS a walking tour, a horse drawn carriage Tourist Information Offices: Visitor Information Points: Kilfinane VIP Adare Tourist Askeaton Civic Trust Main Street, Kilfinane, This 3 to 4 day driving route weaves its Two to three nights in Limerick is ample tour or perhaps a kayaking excellent casual dining Information Office House VIP Co. Limerick way through a rich tapestry of castles time to explore some of the sights as set tour of the city to see Limerick’s restaurants Adare, Co. Limerick. East Square, Askeaton, t: +353 (0) 63 91748 and cathedrals, magnificent Medieval, out in this guide. Accommodation in medieval gems from a completely +353 (0)61 396255 Co. Limerick serving up everything from t: Georgian and modern architecture, Limerick is plentiful, diverse and offers different perspective. There is a mind t: +353 (0) 87 6305922 Kimallock VIP contemporary cuisine to traditional fare. scenic countryside, buzzing urban excellent hospitality and high standards. boggling amount of history to absorb Limerick Tourist Deebert House Hotel, streetscapes and adventure packed here, including the 13th Century King Information Office Castleconnell VIP Kilmalllock, Co. Limerick John’s Castle. Imagine a Norman soldier’s Continue up the main street, O’Connell O’Connell Street Kingfisher Bar, Castleconnell, t: +353 (0) 63 31200 activities and attractions. Limerick is also the Gateway to the Wild life in this ancient fortress and take in Street, toward the elegant Georgian Limerick City Co. Limerick Atlantic Way, so use it as a base for some of the very best views of the city streets of the Newtown Pery area of the t: +353 (0)61 317522 t: +353 (0) 61 377407 Lough Gur VIP These easy to navigate tours will help exploring Ireland’s longest touring route. t: +353 (0) 61 385186 from its medieval turrets. St. Mary’s city, Limerick’s Georgian Quarter. Explore you explore some of Limerick’s inimitable While you’re here, make sure to engage Foynes Flying Boat Cathedral – is the oldest building in one of the finest collections of Irish culture, heritage and unique experiences with Limerick’s locals – there is a reason Museum VIP Make sure to log on to: Limerick still in daily use and if the walls contemporary art at the Limerick city Foynes, Co. Limerick and activities. The route is designed so why we are known as Ireland’s friendliest could talk what a story they would tell! Gallery of Art and the area in which t: +353 (0) 69 65416 www.limerick.ie that you can complete it in its entirety county! Immerse yourself in Limerick’s Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank over 4 days or take it in smaller one Please Note: McCourt (Angela’s Ashes) grew up can all This route is intended fascinating history at the nearby Limerick day chunks. only as a suggestion. City Museum and at the Hunt Museum be found here. A fascinating Museum Tour 2: East Co. Limerick N69 Drive You can begin your dedicated to Frank McCourt’s life is on Contact Information: which houses over 2,000 works of art Visit Ballyhoura Stonehall Visitor Farm journey from any and antiquity including pieces by Renoir Hartstonge Street. point along the route. Tour 1: Limerick City www.visitballyhoura.com www.stonehallvisitorfarm.ie and Picasso. Make sure to also take in 1 Please note and King John’s Castle Glenstal Abbey some sporting history at Limerick’s No visit to Limerick city would be Curraghchase Forest Park adhere to any signs www.shannonheritage.com www.glenstal.org stating ‘Private Thomond Park Stadium. complete, without a visit to its www.coillteoutdoors.ie Property’. welcoming mix of legendary pubs and Limerick City Museum Lough Gur Visitors Centre www.limerick.ie www.loughgur.com Anthony Sheehy [Askeaton While you soak up Limerick’s amazing buzzing bars. Limerick has some great Tour Guide] theatres, venues and performance historic sights, don’t forget to also St. Mary’s Cathedral Irish Harp Centre www.anthonysheehytours.com LIMERICK CITY savour the here and now. Take in the eye- spaces both here in the city and in Co. www.limerick.ie www.irishharpcentre.com Where better to begin your catching urban art dotted around the Limerick with a live music scene that is Basecamp Action Tour 2: West Co. Limerick Adventure Park Experience Limerick Tours, than city; check out its eclectic boutiques, its recognised nationally and new and The Hunt Museum established acts can regularly be found www.huntmuseum.com Adare Heritage Centre www.basecampadventurepark.ie in its city centre. Limerick is an colourful and cosy cafés the Limerick www.adareheritagecentre.ie ideal city to explore on foot or Craft Hub and the award-winning Milk performing across many of our venues. Frank McCourt Museum Foynes Flying Boat Museum by the city’s very own Limerick Market farmer’s market. www.frankmccourtmuseum.com Limerick Racecourse www.flyingboatmuseum.com www.limerickraces.ie Bike Scheme. Limerick city, one Errors and Omissions Every care has been taken in the compilation of this Limerick City Gallery of Art Shannon Tarbert Ferry of the oldest cities in Europe, is If a moment of solitude is desired, our RetroVentures Ireland guide to ensure its accuracy and compliance with the http://gallery.limerick.ie www.shannonferries.com a Viking city dating back to the recently developed waterfront provides a consumer protection laws of Ireland. Limerick www.retroventuresireland.com Marketing cannot accept responsibility for errors or 9th century and is home to a picturesque and peaceful experience on Limerick Milk Market Irish Palatine Heritage Centre Limerick Greyhound Stadium omissions, but where such are brought to our attention www.igb.ie multitude of historical and the banks of the majestic River Shannon future editions will be amended accordingly. www.milkmarketlimerick.ie www.irishpalatines.org cultural treasures. Its castles, as does the beautiful urban oasis, that is We hope you enjoy your visit to Limerick and the Thomond Park Desmond Banqueting Hall ancient walls and museums are a the People’s Park. Experience Limerick Tours. www.thomondpark.ie www.heritageireland.ie testament to its dramatic and captivating past. Explore King’s You will be spoiled for choice when it We would be delighted to hear your feedback and Great Southern Trail Greenway views, suggestions and recommendations. Tell us at www.southerntrail.net Island - the Medieval Quarter of comes to dining. Limerick is a haven of [email protected]. the city and take the R512 cottages, medieval buildings and rich area’s world-class and much renowned through the magnificent parkland of the Continue on to Kilcornan, where you will Foynes Island. Foynes is also the heading in the direction of Trails, heritage and is truly a gem in Limerick’s golf courses. Why not further explore the Demesne or get some retail therapy in find a cluster of fantastic family fun birthplace of the Irish coffee, concocted Kilmallock. The picturesque try go- crown. Antiques shops, boutiques, a open roads of Co. Limerick or the Wild the town’s excellent fashion and activities to keep you and your little ones for cold and weary seaplane passengers driving route you are karting, go hill or Heritage Centre, cozy country pubs and Atlantic Way with a classic car or retro accessory boutiques. entertained. Enjoy the great outdoors at arriving ashore at the air terminus. embarking upon is known as mountain walking where the scenery other retailers jostle for space with a half motorcycle hire from RetroVentures the vast Curraghchase Forest Park, check the Golden Vale Drive, which really is a sight to behold or saddle up on dozen or so restaurants, while the ruins Ireland, located just outside Croagh Stop at Abbeyfeale and explore this out the selection of farm and exotic This part of Limerick is blessed with an will take you through some of the forest trails and mountain that surround the village add their own village, just beyond Adare. appealing market town, or get off the animals at Stonehall Visitor Farm or for abundance of beautiful gardens. Make the most lush, green and paths with Ballyhoura Horse counterpoint of timeworn and venerable beaten track and explore on foot or by something a little less sedate try a spot sure to stop by Knockpatrick and Boyce rolling pasturelands in Ireland. Trails. If you have any character. Continue along the N21 to Rathkeale, bike, part of the Great Southern Trail of go-karting. From Kilcornan, drive a Gardens as you’re in the area. Continuing through Ballyneety budding environmentalists 11km west of Adare. In the 18th century, Greenway, a unique 96km stretch of short distance west (6km), hopping out and on to Lough Gur, 20km south with you, make sure to visit Further enhance your experience of Adare Sir Thomas Southwell introduced the countryside which follows the route of of your car at Askeaton to soak up the Continue west along the N69 through of the city centre, is one of Ireland’s 3 Griston Bog Outdoor with a visit to the farmers market which Palatines to the area, a group of German- the former Limerick to Tralee/Fenit local atmosphere and get a real sense of Loughill as far as Glin. Situated on the 2 most important archaeological Classroom. takes place every Saturday, indulge in the speaking Protestant refugees who Railway line.
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