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Zipit Forest Adventures Ltd.
Zipit Forest Adventures in Lough Key Forest Park, - High wire Adventures course up to 4 hours of adrenaline-filled fun in the treetops.
Phone: 00353 (0)51 858008
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Lough Key Forest Park
Forest park with activity centres and cafe.
Phone: 00353 (0)71 9673122
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King House
King House is a magnificently restored Georgian Mansion built around 1730.
Phone: 00353 (0)71 9663242
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Electric Bike Trails
Bike Hire at Leitrim Village, Carrick on Shannon & Lough Key Forest and Activity Park.
Phone: 00353 (0)87 7386439
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Boyle Abbey
An impressive and well preserved Cistercian Monastery which was founded in the 12th century.
Phone: +353 71 9664817
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King House was the home of the "Kings of Connaught", one of the wealthiest families in seventeenth century Ireland. The house became an army barrcks when the Kings moved to Rockingham, but has since been restored and now houses an exhibition on the King family in Ireland.
Boyle Abbey was built in the twelfth century by the cistercian order, and exhibits several styles of archetcture from that period. The abbey was plundered by the Normans in the thirteenth century, and dissolved in the sixteenth century. Cromwellian sodiers inhabited the building in the seventeenth century, and did considerable damage.
Lough Key Forest Park was once home to the King family, but is now a forest park, ideal for picnics and walks, and the flora of the park is of interest. The Lough has many islands, and one has the ruins of a nineteenth century castle on the site of a much earlier castle.
Trinity Island holds the ruins of an thirteenth century Premonstratensian house of canons, built on the ruins of an earlier Christian Monastery. There are also ruins on Church Island and Hermit Island
Lough Gara is one of the main bream waters in the area, with many catches of over 200 pounds reported. There is also good bank fishing for roach.
Boyle is known as one of the best fishing areas in Ireland. The three lakes - Lough Key, Lough Arrow and Lough Gara, attract international and local fishermen alike.
The River Boyle fishes well in the early season for bream, roach and hybrids.