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Strokestown
Park House
Opening
Hours: 1st
April - 31st October, 11.00 - 05.30. Open all year
for pre-booked groups.
Tel: 00
353 ( 71 ) 96 33013 Fax:
00 353 ( 71 ) 96 33712
e-mail: info@strokestownpark.ie
web: www.strokestownpark.ie
Strokestown
Park House was seat of the Parkenham-Mahons
since the 1660's.
The guided tour of the house includes all the main
reception rooms, the first floor bedrooms, the children's
nurseries and the galleried kitchen, complete with
their original furnishings.
Located in the stable yards of Strokestown Park,
is the very impressive Famine Museum, which commemorates
the Great Irish Famine of the 1840's. The museum
uses the extensive Strokestown archive to explain
the significance of the Famine nationally and to
reflect critically on the ongoing spectacle of contemporary
world hunger and is worth spending a few hours in.
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