Why not organise a visit to Shronell in County Tipperary and see the remains of Mount Bruis on your tours of Ireland. Its a real hidden gem. Joseph Damer was a banker and entrepreneur who moved from England to Dublin in 1662 and soon purchased large...
Roscrea sits on a low hillock between the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the North East and the Devils Bit to the South West. It is a charming place , with streets running down the hill slopes...
Roscrea Heritage Town has a 13th Century Castle in the town centre with 17th Century Damer House in the castle courtyard. Take time to see the St. Cronan's monastic ruins with its 12th Century West Gable. The Round Tower and Black Mills with original High Cross are...
Tours of Ireland will usually visit the Rock of Cashel. It is a must see attraction. It is without doubt the single most impressive site of relegious significance in the whole of Ireland. It dominates the rolling countryside of County Tipperary for miles around. It is named because...
A Cistercian abbey , founded by Donal Mor O Brien in 1611. It is located in County Tipperary , and the abbey gets its name from a relic of the True Cross still housed there. It was rebuilt in the fifteenth century with patronage from the Butler...
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Clonmel is Tipperary's county town, a prosperous and pretty place with plenty of life and, if home-grown novelist Laurence Sterne's writings are anything to go by, some whimsically rum goings-on. Sterne lied during the 18th century and is best known for his picaresque novel, Tristram...
The name Tipperary is taken from the Irish 'Tiobraid Arann', which means 'the well of Era', referring to the River Ara. County Tipperary is the largest inland county in Ireland. Because of its size, in 1838, the county was divided into two administrative areas - the North...
A definite must see attraction on any Ireland tours !! Legend associates the Rock of Cashel with St. Patrick, but the name comes from Caiseal , meaning "stone fort" , and the hill was originally the residence of the kings of Munster. Excavations have revealed some evidence...