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| Abbey Hotel
Galway Road
Roscommon
Co. Roscommon
Ireland
T: +353 1 2958900
E: abbeyhotel@irishcountryhotels.com | |
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| Activities around the Abbey Hotel |
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| Horse Racing in Roscommon |
| For those of you who like racing, Roscommon Races Meetings are as follows: 19th May (E) / 8th June (D) & 9th June (E) / 7th July (E) & 8th July (E) / 5th August (E) / 18th August (E) / 1st September (E) / 29th September (D) |
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| Places to Visit |
| Some of our famous places to visit - Strokestown Park House, a truly historical experience with its fully furnished Georgian Mansion and last remaining Galleried Kitchen. The National Irish Famine Museum and Six Acre walled Garden. King House Interpretive Galleries & Museum, Lough Key Forest Park and enjoy a boat trip around Lough Key. Arigna Mining Experience has a long tradition of mining which dates back to the 1600s. Clonalis House which is teh ancestral home of the O'Conors of Connacht. Cruachan Ai Heritge Centre interprets one of the mose important and best preserved Celtic Royal Sites in Europe with sixty national monuments within a four mile radius of Tulsk. |
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| Outdoor Pursuits |
| Enjoy a round of Golf in our wonderful 18 Hole Golf Course situated very close to the Abbey Hotel. Or for those of you who enjoy Horse Riding, we have Mount Cashel Stables just minutes from the Hotel. They provide Trekking / Hacking along beautifyl quite country roads, bog lanes and a trip up 'Slieve Baun' Mountain. For the adventurous what about a Boat Trips on the Shannon - our Reception Team will be delighted to organise your trip. Glendeer Pet Farm is a 6 Acre open farm with over 50 species of animals and birds, ranging from Llama, Emus, Ostrich, Deer, Scottish highland heifer, jersey cows, ponies, rabbits, guinea-pigs puppies and lots more inlcuding rare birds and fowl. Light refreshments are served, a playground with swings, slides, glider swings and sea-saws, indoor and outdoor picnic areas ideal for any family outing. |
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| COUNTY ROSCOMMON is surrounded by prime coarse fishing rivers and lakes. These catchments have consistently produced good bags of exceptional size fish and being sparsely populated and removed from areas of populations it boasts a clear and unspoilt environment. THE RIVER SHANNON with its vast inlets and back waters lies to the east. There are well developed sections of the lake in the Athlone-Kiltoom area where bags of bream and roach in excess of 100lbs are common. STROKESTOWN and TULSK LAKELANDS have consistently produced specimen rudd and bream hybrids. Bags of these species to 60lbs are common for a dayâ??s fishing in this district. THE BOYLE RIVER and its network of lakes, in the Elphin-Carrick-on-Shannon, and Boyle area has a great diversity of coarse angling. Tench to 6lbs are common in this area, and the head of roach is excellent here with mixed bags to 80lbs. THE RIVER LUNG in Ballaghaderreen has a big stock of roach and large shoals of bream. RIVER SHANNON / LOUGH REE Lough Ree is a famous coarse angling lake, seventeen miles long and the second largest lake in the Shannon system. Often described as an inland sea, the lake has numerous bays and inlets which offer the coarse angler a variety of angling . The lake is noted for its big pike. Lough Ree produces specimen bream, tench, hybrids and rudd each year. Bags of mixed coarse fish to 100lbs are common for a dayâ??s fishing. STROKESTOWN & TULSK The coarse angling paradise of the west is surrounded by 65 lakes within a seven mile radius of the town. All our lakes have an abundance of pike, perch, bream and rudd and some tench. Several lakes equipped with fishing stands. Record for Irish rudd smashed 3 times in 1995. The villages of Rooskey and Tarmonbarry are also two noted coarse angling centres on the River Shannon with big stocks of bream, roach, rudd and hybrids in evidence. Tulsk is set in a limestone country with fertile land and many lakes. Bream, perch and pike are common, with eels in all lakes. BOYLE & CARRICK-ON-SHANNON Both towns are recognised internationally as important angling centres. The Boyle river and Lough Key hold good stocks of bream, roach, perch, pike and trout. Boats available locally. Numerous lakes in the area have good fish stock and all have fishing stands. Lough Arrow, Cavetown Lake and Lisdaly Lake have brown trout. BALLAGHADERREEN - THE LUNG VALLEY: The Lung Valley is an anglerâ??s paradise with its rivers and lakes - Lough Gara, Lough Glynn, Lough Errit, Lough Urlar, Cloonaholly, Cloonaught. It is the best coarse fishing water in Ireland for bream, roach, rudd, hybrids, perch, tench, trout, eel and pike in excess of 30lbs. Park with easy access, also disabled stand for physically impaired anglers. |
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| Hodson Bay Water Sports Athlone: One-Hour, Boating Eco Tours are the latest way to spend your day, when you visit beautiful Hodson Bay on Lough Ree, just 15 minutes from Roscommon. Explore the history and natural beauty of Lough Ree with your own personal guide on one of our Eco Boat tours operating throughout the day from Hodson Bay Pier from July to September. Looking for an exciting day out? |
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| Walking in Roscommon |
| Suck Valley Way is a 100km Waymarked Walk Way which runs through the Suck River Valley, incorporating parts of counties Roscommon and Galway. It is unusual among Irish Waymarked Walks because for most of its length it lies across lowland farms. It also traverses the boglands and callows along the river Suck with their numerous lakes and drainage channels. The varied landscape includes gentle hills, forests, bogs, meadows and farmland, and the lovely Suck River is crossed no less than six times via old stone/dot.gif bridges. The monuments of history are everywhere and the bird and plant life offer a delightful study for the botanist, ornithologist and anyone who loves nature. The Way passes through "The Nine Friendly Villages", Ballygar, Creggs, Glinsk, Ballymoe, Ballintober, Dunamon, Castlecoote, Athleague and Mount Talbot. Arigna Minerâ??s Way and Historical Trail are a network of walking paths which wind their way through adjoining parts of Counties Leitrim, Roscommon and Sligo. The Miners Way follows many of the paths used by the miners going to work in the Arigna coal mines. This section makes a circuit starting from Arigna and travelling via Keadue, Ballyfarnon and Corrie Mountain to return to Arigna. The Historical Trail section runs in a great loop, leaving the Miners Way at Keadue and running to Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle, Carrowkeel, Castlebaldwin, Highwood and returning to the Miners Way at Ballyfarnon. A third loop connects the Miners Way to Sli Liatroma and goes around Lough Allen by Drumkeeran, Dowra, Drumshanbo and back to Arigna. The Arigna Miners Way, including all links is 62km (39 miles) in length and ascends some 1300 metres. The Historical Trail is 56km (35 miles) in length and ascends some 850 metres. They are most suitable for a weekâ??s walking but the visitor can pick and choose which sections to walk. Mote Park Heritage Walkway is a proposed waymarked walk through Mote Park estate just outside Roscommon town. The guide book is in draft stage at the moment. This is a 20km (approx) walk through open farmland, forest and hillside. Mote Park Forest is home to many species of wildlife e.g. red squirrel and pine marten and is very popular with local people for walking, cycling, birdwatching etc. A permanent orienteering course is located at Mote Park. Sliabh Ban- Walking Through Time-Strokestown Embark on a Walk through Time which will demonstrate the fundamental links between the natural history and the cultural development of an area over time. In the Strokestown district, the geological foundations provide the underlying shape of the landscape, dominated by Sliabh Baun mountain to the south east of the town. More recently, the Great Ice Age carved out the modern landscape, leaving behind a legacy of hills (drumlins), lakes, soils and bogs which have directed the patterns of human activity over the centuries. In particular, the major change in the course of the River Shannon during the Ice Age can be observed in the current pattern of the Kilglass Lakes system. Experience 3 walks through this unique landscape. |
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