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Muckross house
Ladies View
Killarney Town
Killarney lake
Riding in Killarney
National Park
Killarney
Riding Stables,
Ballydowney,
Killarney,
Co. Kerry,
Ireland.
Telephone:
00 353 64 31686
Fax: 00 353 64 34119
From USA:
Telephone: 011 353 64 31686
Fax: 011 353 64 34119
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Renowned for its beauty,
famed for the splendour of its scenery, Killarney is one of the
world's best loved tourist spots.
Killarney (Cill Airne
- The Church of Sloes) became a magnificent town about 1750 when
the local magnate, Lord Kenmare, developed the tourist business
and four major roads were built to the outside world. Th earea still
bears the marks of a group of houses huddled outside the demesne
walls. The present population is about 9000 and the main economic
base is tourism.
Situated in the south-western corner of Ireland, with its three
famous lakes reflecting the ever changing skies above the great
mountain ranges, Killarney has been the inspiration of poets and
painters for many centuries, and now it is also a thriving commercial
and tourist centre.
Killarney offers a
wide and varide range of hotels from the large and luxurious to
the small and intimate. There are some excellant guesthouses, cosy
farmhouses, friendly town and country homes, with self-catering
accomodation in the most attractive locations with a total capacity
to cater for almost 6,000 visitors.
It is the ideal playground
for the sporting enthusiast - you can fish, swim, golf, play tennis,
ride a horse or pony, paddle a canoe, or climb a mountain. For those
interested in history and archaeology there are many outstanding
items of interest to be seen.
The threen main lakes of Killarney occupy a broad valley stretching
south between the mountains, the three lakes and the mountains that
surround them are all within the Killarney National Park. Nearest
the town is the lower lake ( Lough Leane) studded with islands and
having on its eastern shore the historic Muckross Abbey and Ross
Castle. The wooded peninsula of Muckross separates the lower lake
from the middle lake sometimes called Muckross Lake.
At the tip of the
Muckross Peninsula is the quaint Brickeen bridge and Dinis Island
further on with its sub-tropical vegetation and views of the Meeting
of the Waters. A narrow straight called the Long Range leads to
the island -studded upper lake. Around these islands are luxurious
woods of oak, arbitus, holly and mountain ash, while beneath grows
a profusion of fern and other plants. Added to the beauty of the
three main lakes are manyother lakes in the folds of the mountains,
and thenumerous picturesque cascades such as Torc Waterfall. Rising
to the west of the Killarney valley are the peaks of the MacGillicuddy's
Reeks. These mountains beloved of the climber including Carrauntohil
3414 feet ( 1,050 metres), the highest peak in Ireland.
Killarney
Riding Stables
is a member of the
Horse Riding Ireland
Marketing Association |
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