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| CARRICKMACROSS , ten miles south of Castleblaney, is the county's
second most important town, boosted in the nineteenth century by a
prosperous lace-making industry. Still, it's a rather modest place with
just one broad main street: a planter's Gothic church stands at one end,
and a fine mid-nineteenth century courthouse at the other. In between,
lies a bustling array of pubs, shops and Georgian houses, and today's
lacemakers have their tiny showcase in the nineteenth-century market
buildings at the lower end of the main street. Just outside town,
landscaped parkland of sumptuous oaks and beeches surrounds Lough Fea .
Further out, some three miles down the Kingscourt Road, is the Dún a Rí
Forest Park with more good wooded walks. The massive Nuremore Hotel is
very expensive (tel 042/966 1438; over £130/¬165.07), but there are
plenty of B&Bs near the centre of Carrickmacross, up the Derry Road past
the Texaco petrol station: try Cloughvalley House (tel 042/966 1246;
£26-33/¬33.01-41.90), or head for Eureka at 27 Ard Rois Ave (tel 042/966
2009; £33-40/¬41.90-50.79), a friendly, low-key B&B. |
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