Breaks, holidays and vacations in on the Shannon river, Ireland
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Boat Hire and Travel Guide to the Shannon River in Ireland.

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Strokestown is a medium sized town located on the main road between Longford and Castlebar. It is about 15km from the village of Rooskey, and a five kilometre walk from Grange harbour on the Shannon Navigation. The town was built in the late eighteenth century and features unusually wide streets. It is believed that the second Lord Hartland had them built this wide to match the Ringstrasse in Vienna. The town houses the Irish famine museum and the Strokestown genealogy centre.

History

Strokestown was built around Strokestown Park House, once home to the Mahons. The Strokestown landlord, Lord Denis Mahon, was assassinated on the estate having attempted to clear the land of approximately eight thousand of his tenants though assisted emigration and eviction during the great famine. Strokestown house has now been restored and is open to the public. It has some fine examples of eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors, and houses the only museum in the country dedicate to the great famine of the 1840's in which approximately 2.5 million people died or emigrated.

This travel guide is available free of charge due to the travel agents commission taken on boat hire services on the river. Feel free to browse the site at your leisure - all we ask is that if you are taking a boating holiday on the Shannon, you book it through the Shannon River web site.