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Finnstown Country House Hotel

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Courtney's Pub

Primrose Hill

Primrose Hill is a most endearing garden and the way it is hidden away down a laneway in the middle of Lucan gives a pleasing sense of discovery. An avenue of beech trees with bulbs and cyclamen around their feet offers a suitably grand approach to a charming Regency House attributed to Gandon. Behind it is a garden full of colourful plant characters, created by two generations of the Hall family, with many lovely old fashioned cultivars.

There are two distinct areas to the main part of the garden; an informal area in front of the house with large beds curving around lawns and gravel, and the former kitchen garden with a grid of paths, where herbaceous plants have taken over from the vegetables. There are seldom seen plants like handsome centurion, ondopordum auriculas and rosceas and the nut rose.

The plants seem to have active sex lives and among those that have interbred and produced hybrids special to Primrose Hill are Lobelia ‘Pink Elephant’ and ‘Spark’ . Snowdrop enthusiasts make a special pilgrimage to the garden in February to see one of the finest collections of galanthus in Ireland. There is also a developing arboretum covering five acres which shouldn’t be missed, and a recently created foregarden at the entrance which gives visitors a taste of things to come.

Finnstown Country House Hotel

 

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Fort Lucan

Fort Lucan is a fully supervised outdoor adventure playground for children aged 2-14. Kids create their own adventures as they discover secret slides, climb 40 foot towers and high walkways before zipping across the aerial runways.

Escape your friends in the maze or challenge them on the army-style assault courses. There's a large, sandy play area for younger kids, trampolines, pedal cars in two areas for younger and older kids, Crazy Golf and the best bit of all, two massive water slides that you shoot down on inflatable rafts!

There's hours of fun to be had here.

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