![]() ![]() Lots of thatched cottages throughout the village, with a scrummage of tourists around them.You can stroll around but watch out for golfers. The Franciscan friary is a ruin on Adare Manor Golf Course.The Trinitarian friary in town centre was restored in the 19th C and is now Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church.It's usually accessible daytime, on Main Street at the river bridge. It's well preserved, with a 15th C cloister and sedilia, and a 16th C Pieta. The Augustinian friary was the original "black abbey" and is now the attractive St Nicholas Church of Ireland and school.Visit by guided tour from the Heritage Centre. 13th C ring-fortress, the stronghold of the Earls of Kildare till 1536 then forfeited and awarded to the Earls of Desmond. Desmond Castle ( Go to Heritage Centre for tickets and shuttle bus, no walk-up access).The centre has a small exhibition, a restaurant, and inevitably a large gift shop. The best place to start is the 52.565 -8.79 1 Adare Heritage Centre on Main Street, open daily 09:00-18:00. ![]() See The Trinitarian friary is now the RC church Street parking is difficult because of the congestion. There's a free public car park (monitored by CCTV) behind the Heritage Centre, with an e-car charging point. The bus stop eastbound towards Limerick is outside the Heritage Centre, while the westbound buses to Tralee or Killarney stop outside the Post Office.Īccess to the castle is by shuttle bus, everything else is best visited on foot. They continue via Rathkeale to Newcastle West, whence the 13 runs every two hours via Listowel to Tralee, while the 14 runs every two hours via Abbeyfeale and Kerry airport to Killarney. Plans for a bypass were lodged in early 2020: no completion date is stated, but the Ryder Cup is being staged in Adare in 2026, and the congestion will be shambolic if the bypass hasn't opened by then.īy bus: Bus Éireann No 13 and 14 run from Limerick hourly, daily, taking 20 min. ![]() The M20 / N21 leads to Adare but there's no bypass, so the town is always congested with traffic passing through to Kerry on top of tourist traffic for the town itself. In 2016 the population was 1129.Īdare is 15 km southwest of Limerick city. Adare grew up at a point where the River Maigue can be forded, hence its name Áth Dara, "ford of the oak". It's one of the prettiest towns in the country, with a castle and a plush golf resort. Adare is a small town in County Limerick in the Shannon Region of western Ireland. ![]()
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