Family
Our wonderful guides are ‘specially trained to ensure that younger visitors have an engaging time at all of our sites. Enjoy outdoor play facilities, picnic areas, child-friendly exhibitions and special hands-on activities at many of our sites. Your young explorer might get to hold the key to a castle, inspect gruesome weapons or fulfil a noble quest! Making the past come alive has never been so much fun.
We try our best to make sure that there’s something for visitors young and old at all of our sites. Here are our top 10 suggestions for the best days out with young explorers.
Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre – Oldbridge Estate
Where two kings fought for Europe’s future
Castletown House and Parklands
Ireland’s first and finest Palladian mansion
Doneraile Court and Estate
North Cork’s ‘real-life Downton Abbey’
Emo Court and Estate
A magnificent example of neo-classical architecture
Farmleigh House and Gardens
An eclectic Edwardian mansion and the Irish state guesthouse
Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsaigh Conamara- Pearse’s Cottage and Visitor Centre
A cottage steeped in revolutionary history and Gaelic culture
Kilkenny Castle
The jewel in the crown of an enchanting medieval city
Pearse Museum – St. Enda’s Park
An enthralling chapter in the story of 1916
Portumna Castle and Gardens
Seventeenth-century splendour on the shores of Lough Derg
Tintern Abbey
Where monks toiled and legacies were created
