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We'll be delighted to have
you as our guest and
hope you have a good
nights rest
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Hazelwood House
Cong Rd,
Headford
Co. Galway.
Tel:
+353 (0)93 36977
Mob: (0)87 6746262
Email:
fenellamcarey@eircom.net
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Welcome
to Hazelwood House B&B
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Location |
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Hazelwood House is
located three miles from Headford, in the direction of Cong. We are just
three miles from Lough Corrib and seventeen miles from Galway City. Ashford
Castle in Cong is just 10 miles away.
Headford,
some 15 miles from Galway City, is the popular angling centre for the
eastern shore of Lough Corrib. Greenfields, some 6.5 km west of the town, is
its boating harbour. The town is situated next to the Black River (noted
also for its trout angling) which is the county boundary with Mayo. Headford
is also the centre of an area rich in archaeological monuments, ranging from
prehistoric burial cairns, Iron Age stone enclosures, early Norman and later
castles, to a bewildering array of monastic sites. Headford is twinned with
the picturesque town of Le Faouët in Brittany, France.
Some Local Attractions
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Ross Errilly Friary
Standing in serene solitude on the
South bank of the Black River, just two miles West from the town is the
Franciscan Friary of Ross is recognised by many historians as the best
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It was founded in 1349 by the
then Archbishop of Tuam Dr. Malachy MacHugh, who was a native of the
Headford area and, as it happens, a member of the Franciscan order.
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Killursa
Killursa is about 1.5 miles west of Headford
on the Greenfields road. It is a ruined church set in an extensive
graveyard. The ruin measures 70f eet by 24 feet, and it has a gothic pointed
doorway, and a large mullioned gothic window, which indicates that the
present structure was erected after the Norman invasion, 1169. |
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A wall was
built across this church, probably cutting off a section for the officiating
clergyman, who had his habitat there. Killursa means the church of St. Fursa
whose statue one sees as one enters the graveyard. It was here St. Fursa had
the famous visions of the unseen world which grave authors assert inspired
Dante to write his “Comedia Divina”. |
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