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Things to do in Adare

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An estate village of thatched cottages on the Maigue, laid out by the Earls of Dunraven in the 1820s and generally called the prettiest village in Ireland, which means it is busy and it is a stop rather than a base. Three medieval religious houses stand within a kilometre of each other, and the Dunraven house itself is now one of the grandest hotels in the country. It hosts the Ryder Cup in 2027.

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Things to do

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  1. Curraghchase Forest Park

    Curraghchase Forest Park

    Park · 2 hr

    Three hundred hectares of woodland, lake and arboretum around the burnt-out shell of the de Vere house, with waymarked loops and a heron colony on the lake. It is ten minutes west and rarely busy.

  2. Adare Friary

    Monastery · 30 min

    A Franciscan friary of 1464 founded by the Earl of Kildare, roofless with its cloister and tower standing, now inside the golf course of Adare Manor and reached with the club's permission. It is the most complete of the village's three houses.

  3. Adare Manor

    Hotel

    A Victorian calendar house with three hundred and sixty-five windows and fifty-two chimneys, rebuilt behind its own facade in a two-year closure and reopened in 2017, in a hundred and sixty hectares on the Maigue. The golf course hosts the 2027 Ryder Cup.

  4. Desmond Castle

    Castle · 1 hr

    A thirteenth-century castle on the bank of the Maigue with a moat, a great hall and a keep inside a curtain wall, besieged and taken in 1580. Access is by guided tour from the heritage centre in season only.

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