Clonmel Tourist Information Office

03/09/2024

From Out The Land

03/09/2024

UPDATE ON TEMPORARY CLOSURE
Due to circumstances outside of our control, Ormond Castle will remain closed to the public on Thursday, 5th and Friday, 6th September.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

OPW - Office of Public Works Heritage Ireland Munster Vales Tudor Artisan Hub Carrick On Suir Cosba Explore Carrick-on-Suir

03/09/2024

02/09/2024

Here it is! Clonmel Applefest 2024’s Programme Highlights! 🍎✨

Call down to the Main Guard from 2-4pm as we launch this years festival and reveal more of what to expect the September 26-29, around Clonmel!

See you soon for lively tunes and refreshments! 🍎

02/09/2024

02/09/2024

On this day in 1989, the newly renovated Swiss Cottage in Cahir became a National Monument and was opened to tourists and the general public.

The Swiss Cottage was built in the early 1800s by the Earl of Glengall in a secluded corner of his 700-acre estate. It was designed by renowned architect John Nash; whose works include Buckingham Palace. The building had fallen into disrepair by the 1980s but was still considered to be one of the finest examples of a rustic, ornamental house in Ireland or the UK.

The improvement works, coordinated by the OPW, cost approximately £400,000 and relied largely on a programme of voluntary work by local groups, craftsmen and some 100 FAS trainees. The interior was designed by Sybil Connolly and the roof, thatched with river reeds, was restored by Waterford thatcher Hugh O’Neill. It was officially opened to the public by Brendan Daly T.D. on 1 September 1989.

OPW - Office of Public Works
The Swiss Cottage

Sources:
Irish Press, 01/09/1989, p9.
Irish Independent 02/09/1989, p1.

02/09/2024

Mark McCabe with Mimi Lane live in the Big Top Thurles! Fully covered event with special guests DJ Paul Fitz & Jambo Sax and much more.

28/08/2024

Clonmel Applefest 2024 edition will be launched on Saturday, August 31, at Clonmel’s Main Guard with a live concert by the Fresh Air Collective.

27/08/2024

Photo of the Week: Castle Street, Roscrea, 1970s

Roscrea Heritage Society This is Roscrea

26/08/2024

21/08/2024

We must be psychic!

When we put a 2017 picture of two Clonmel Rowing Club winners on our sporting wall following the renovations in 2019, we had a feeling the club would achieve great things...

Five years, and an Olympic Bronze medal later, we were proven right and the only thing left to do now is add a photograph of Daire with his Olympic Medal to our wall of Tipperary sporting icons!

Congrats again to Daire and his teammate Philip Doyle!

Clonmel Rowing Club Team Ireland Nationalist Newspaper Tipp FM Rowing Ireland

21/08/2024

One of the many storyboards on display in Fethard’s shop windows this week for Heritage Week.

The Fethard Historical Society invites locals and visitors alike to take a stroll along Main Street and Burke Street during Heritage Week to peruse the storyboard windows and to enjoy learning a little more about the town’s fascinating history.

Windows along the Main Street and Burke Street display storyboards relating the connection to Fethard of such diverse figures as Augustinian martyr Blessed William Tirry, the Australian
bushranger Ned Kelly and General Thomas Francis Burke after whom Burke Street is named
There’s a chance to discover why the prestigious winemakers, the Bartons of Bordeaux, are included, what links a simple grave in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church to the Oval Office in the White House, Washington, or how the travelling trunk of a young woman from Slievenamon played a crucial role in the ensuring the legacy of one of America’s best loved poets.
Michael Doheny, author of The Felon’s Track is also featured, as is pioneering photographer Patrick Kenrick and landscape artist Michael Brennan.

21/08/2024

They say a picture speaks a thousand words... All we can say is WOW 😍
📍 Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary

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19/08/2024

Clonmel Town Services runs bus routes 7 days a week. The CL1 and CL2 run every 60 minutes and the CL9 runs twice daily.

Since it’s launch 9 months ago on the 10th of December 127,500 passengers have availed of the services.

If you have used the CL1, CL2 or CL9, we would love to hear about your positive experience!

For timetable information and more, visit; https://www.transportforireland.ie/plan-a-journey/network-maps/clonmel-town-services/



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19/08/2024

Not long to go now to the kick off of Heritage Week 2024

Running from 17th -25th August 2024, National Heritage Week is an initiative by the Heritage Council celebrating all things Heritage

With over 90 events happening in County Tipperary, there is something for everyone, check out the programme on https://www.heritageweek.ie/

Tipperary County Council Ireland's Ancient East Ireland's Hidden Heartlands Discover Ireland National Heritage Council

19/08/2024

🏰 Cahir Castle, one of Ireland's largest castles, majestically perched on an island in the River Suir. Dive into Ireland's history! 🇮🇪✨

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19/08/2024

Join us on Sunday, 25th August for our National Heritage Week events.

19/08/2024

**VISITING TIPPERARY THIS SUMMER**

Only a short drive from Clonmel is the historic town of Lismore.
If you are using Clonmel as a base then this needs to be on your list for a day trip!!

Lismore Castle VR Experience
Glimpse inside the 12th century Lismore Castle and the lives of the famous people who lived there via a Virtual Reality experience the modern way to tell history.

Themed Guided Walking Tours
Local insights shared into the culture, history and heritage of Lismore town and its people, highlighting the unique ecology of the Backwater Valley with different distances to suit all walkers.

Lismore Escape Room
This Interactive game where you and your team are given 1 hour to solve puzzles, clues to open locks to find the code.
See for more details www.discoverlismore.com

23/07/2024

Rainy days and Mondays getting you down? Feast your eyes on this beautiful ariel shot of Dungarvan shared with us by the very talented ! Who needs blue skies when the clouds create such a beautiful reflection.

17/07/2024

Cahir Castle
From Tourism-Ireland
Behold one of the largest castles in Ireland from the comfort of your own home – Cahir Castle, County Tipperary!
This ancient stronghold was strategically built on a small island on the River Suir and its mighty walls will be waiting to welcome you inside

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17/07/2024

17/07/2024

Broadcaster David McCullagh will give the talk at Cahir Castle of Cahir Social & Historical Society's Culture at the Castle Festival

17/07/2024

📢 Calling all Food Trucks! 🍕🍰🥗

Clonmel Applefest's hugely popular ✨Harvest Fair✨ is back this September! 😃

🍎 If you are a food truck or vendor and are interested in being considered for a spot at the fair, then we want to hear from you!

Please fill in this short expression of interest form, and we'll let you know if you've been shortlisted! 😉
https://forms.gle/WR3XkngPnsqw9bFG8

We're excited to hear from you!


Tipperary Arts Office The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Tipperary Education and Training Board Creative Ireland Tipperary

17/07/2024

Photo of the week: Rock of Cashel c.1940s.

This is a postcard from our collection. There is a fabulous view of the Rock of Cashel from an approach road. A terrace of houses to the right of the picture, some with railings, some with hedges. There is a lady standing in front of the house at top end of terrace, looking up to an open window. The postcard is unused and was published by Cardall Ltd, Dublin.

Rock of Cashel Cashel Tidytown Cashel Palace Hotel Baileys Hotel Cashel Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Information Church of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock, Cashel Cahir Cashel Municipal District

17/07/2024

The original Suir Blueway!

On this day in 1756, a £1,500 contract was signed between Clonmel Corporation and Joseph Grubb, Richard Shaw and William Markham to construct a towpath supported by a dry-stone wall along the northern bank of the River Suir between Clonmel and Carrick.

Starting at the Clonmel end, the plan was to develop the towpath down to Carrick. By 1789, the towpath was complete. Up until this, boats called ‘noddies’ carrying loads of 7+ tons had been pulled up the river by gangs of men and women with ropes on their shoulders up the south bank of the river (the Waterford side). But now with the completion of a new towpath, horse-drawn barges were able to pull cargoes of 40 tons up the new towpath on the Tipperary side of the river. These new developments permitted merchandise to be moved in less time and more economically between the two towns.

Because of the existence of the navigation from Clonmel to Carrick, it made these towns significant collecting and distributing centres. The traders supplied and purchased goods over an area embracing the towns of Tipperary, Thurles, Templemore, Cashel, Roscrea, Fethard and many smaller places. The principal articles carried inland were coal, grain, flour, manures, seeds, foreign timber and a variety of shop goods. The goods brought down river included corn, oats, flour, condensed milk, wool, eggs, native timbers and more.

The opening of the Waterford to Limerick railway in 1854 was to herald the eventual demise of the river trade between Clonmel and Carrick/Waterford although trade was to remain strong for a number of years afterwards. Michael Ahern claims that it was the 1920s before trade declined to the point that the Suir Navigation Company, which charged tolls on the river traffic, was ‘moribund’.

Tipperary County Council

Source:
Michael Ahern, Rare Clonmel, pp252-261.