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The Grand Canal running beside the road and the houses at Tullamore

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County Offaly

Tullamore is built along the Grand Canal, with the old harbour in the town and the whiskey distillery on its southern edge.

Five of the twenty places on our County Offaly list are in or near Tullamore: Charleville Castle, Tullamore D.E.W. Distillery, Grand Canal Greenway, Durrow High Cross and Church and Rahan Churches. That is a castle, a distillery, a greenway and two monastic sites between them. Below you will find one more place from Fáilte Ireland's listings and one event coming up.

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5 places in and around Tullamore.

  1. The battlemented front and arched doorway of Charleville CastleCharleville CastleCastle · TullamoreA Gothic revival castle stands in oak woodland on the edge of Tullamore, open for guided tours.
  2. The stone buildings of the Tullamore D.E.W. distillery, County OffalyTullamore D.E.W. DistilleryDistillery or brewery · TullamoreThe working distillery at Clonminch on the edge of Tullamore runs a long tour through the still house and the cask warehouse, for over 18s.
  3. A canal lock with its black and white gates closed on the Grand CanalGrand Canal GreenwayGreenway · TullamoreThe canal towpath runs the whole width of the county and is flat the whole way, so you can take it in sections.
  4. The ninth-century high cross at Durrow seen through the church doorDurrow High Cross and ChurchMonastic site · TullamoreThe tenth century high cross and early grave slabs sit at the old Durrow monastery north of Tullamore.
  5. The carved Romanesque doorway of the old church at RahanRahan ChurchesMonastic site · TullamoreTwo early churches beside the Grand Canal west of Tullamore. One of them is still in use.

More to see in Tullamore

From Fáilte Ireland’s own listings.

  1. Esker ArtsGallery · TullamoreEsker Arts is a visual, performance and community arts centre in Tullamore, County Offaly.

What’s on in Tullamore

Saturday 14th November

  1. Sat14 NovApitherapy Seminar - Bee Products for Health & WellbeingBridge House Hotel, Tullamore

More from the Offaly list

  1. The carved high cross from Clonmacnoise standing under lights in the visitor centreClonmacnoiseMonastic site · ShannonbridgeA monastery on a bend of the Shannon, with two round towers, several churches and a field of carved slabs.
  2. Birr Castle, BirrBirr Castle DemesneCastle · BirrFifty hectares of gardens around the castle, and the nineteenth century Leviathan telescope still standing in its walls.
  3. The mountain road over the Slieve Bloom Mountains between bog and forestrySlieve Bloom MountainsMountain · KinnittyThe range sits low and forested on the Laois border, crossed by one long waymarked route with shorter loops signed off it.
  4. A thatched bird hide on a timber walkway beside the lake at Lough BooraLough Boora Discovery ParkPark · KilcormacA worked out bog was turned into a park, and it now has lakes, cycle paths and large outdoor sculptures left out in it.
  5. Bog asphodel in flower on Clara Bog, County OffalyClara Bog Nature ReserveBog · ClaraOne of the last raised bogs left in western Europe, crossed by a boardwalk, with the visitor centre in the town.
  6. Cut bog running away to Croghan Hill in the distanceCroghan HillViewpoint · RhodeA volcanic plug stands on its own out of the Bog of Allen, with a burial mound on the top.

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