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PARKS & GARDENS<br />
‘Enjoy the beauty of nature in <strong>Tipperary</strong>’<br />
Castletown Glebe<br />
Our tip for<br />
DID YOU KNOW?<br />
Galanthus ‘Hill Poe’, one of the neatest ‘double flowered’ snowdrops, was<br />
first observed in the garden of James Hill Poe in Nenagh.<br />
In the 1950’s bulbs were sent to the Giant Snowdrop Company in Gloucestershire,<br />
who introduced the variety into the commercial gardening world. Galanthus ‘Hill Poe’<br />
was awarded a certificate of preliminary commendation in January 1974.<br />
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GARDENS OF TIPPERARY<br />
www.loughderggardens.com<br />
Ballyboy House Garden m<br />
Clogheen, Cahir, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: John and Breda Moran<br />
T: +353 (0)52 746 5297<br />
W: www.ballyboy-house.com<br />
Ballyhist Garden l<br />
Clonmel, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Joe and Mary Johannes<br />
T: +353 (0)52 746 6788<br />
Camas Park Garden l<br />
Cashel, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Trish Hyde<br />
T: +353 (0)62 61010<br />
Castletown Glebe Garden l<br />
Portroe, Nenagh, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Fedelma Tierney<br />
T: +353 (0)67 23318<br />
W: www.loughderggardens.com<br />
Killurney Garden l<br />
Clonmel, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Mildred Stokes<br />
T: +353 (0)52 613 3155<br />
New Haven Garden l<br />
Cahir, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Maureen Ahern<br />
T: +353 (0)52 744 1508<br />
Petrovska %<br />
Kilgainey, Clonmel, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Michael & Snezana O’Riordan<br />
T: +353 (0)52 618 2969<br />
Rathurles Garden %<br />
Rathurles, Nenagh, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Kerrie O’Connor<br />
T: +353 (0)86 807 9763<br />
W: www.loughderggardens.com<br />
Celtic Plantarum Dundrum m<br />
Dundrum, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
T: +353 (0)62 71303<br />
Roscrea Heritage Formal Garden<br />
Roscrea, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
T: +353 (0)505 21850<br />
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Fancroft Mill and <strong>Gardens</strong> l<br />
Roscrea, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Marcus and Irene Sweeney<br />
T: +353 (0)505 31484<br />
W: www.fancroft.ie<br />
Killmacomma Garden l<br />
Clonmel, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Pauline Hegarty<br />
T: +353 (0)52 612 2525<br />
W: www.kilmacommagarden.org<br />
For further information check out<br />
www.loughderggardens.com<br />
or www.discoverireland.ie<br />
Springhill Garden l<br />
Killenaule, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
Contact: Catherine & Demi O’Byrne<br />
T: +353 (0)52 915 6210<br />
north tipperary/lough derg<br />
Lough Derg Garden Trail<br />
c/o Rathurles Lodge, Rathurles, Nenagh, Co. <strong>Tipperary</strong><br />
A variety of beautiful gardens near<br />
Lough Derg. For visiting times, photos,<br />
locations and admission fees see<br />
www.loughderggardens.com<br />
T: +353 (0)86 807 9763 E: info@loughderggardens.com<br />
W: www.loughderggardens.com<br />
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PARKS & GARDENS<br />
Borrisokane Town Park includes a popular playground<br />
and a nearby sports field, where hurling, football, soccer<br />
and even cricket are played.<br />
Other features of the park include a duck pond, a<br />
walkway around the park, which is lined with pieces of<br />
bog oak, and at various intervals the walker will come<br />
across displays of poetry, and the Ballycasey Stone<br />
Circle, a formation of rocks millions of years old.<br />
Templemore Town Park is located close to the<br />
centre of the town and has a well equipped children’s<br />
playground, a swimming pool, a GAA pitch, Pitch &<br />
Putt, an all-weather athletic track, a beautiful man<br />
made lake for fishing, picnic tables and walking areas.<br />
Stroll through secluded paths by the picturesque<br />
backdrop of the Blackcastle and the old church with its<br />
18th century graveyard.<br />
Suir Falls<br />
Ballina Riverside Park is an excellent riverside park<br />
and has a seasonal heated outdoor swimming pool.<br />
There are plenty of moorings for cruisers to stop off and<br />
explore Ballina and the jetty offers a platform to fish from next to the<br />
River Shannon. There is also a range of outdoor gym equipment and<br />
an outdoor soccer pitch for the more active person or you can take a<br />
stroll on the pathways which meander along the shores of Lough Derg.<br />
Cahir Park (formerly part of the Butler Estate), with its broad, richlytimbered<br />
lands on the banks of the Suir south of the town, is the<br />
home of the 18-hole Cahir Park Golf Club and provides one of the<br />
most popular walks for locals and visitors alike—the “Coronation<br />
Walk” which leads from the Castle to the Swiss Cottage.<br />
The Richard Mulcahy Town Park, Clonmel, is a riverside park,<br />
which includes a pinetum, some lovely walks along the Suir<br />
and a spectacular poppy field. A short distance to the east,<br />
The Wilderness Gorge is an area of remarkable beauty and<br />
a sanctuary for wildlife and plants.<br />
Carrick-on-Suir Town Park, is a public park which was created in the<br />
1860’s and lies in the centre of the town. Pathways through the park<br />
will bring you on some beautiful walks through the woodlands.<br />
Ballina Riverside Park<br />
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