The best traffic-free bike rides around The Municipal District of Cahir — Cashel

Well-preserved castle, not overcrowded.

Tipperary is a colourful and historic market town, featuring Georgian streets and traditional shopfronts. Famed in a song adopted by WW1 soldiers as a marching song - I challenge you not to sing it at least once.

13th-century Moor Abbey is a Franciscan friary, ruined since the reformation. The surviving church, built in 1471, retains its Gothic features and is designated as a National Monument. It endured multiple burnings and periods of reoccupation before being abandoned in 1748. It is open to the public for free and the location is surrounded by beautiful views.

Cahir Castle is one of Ireland’s largest and best-preserved castles. It stands proudly on a rocky island on the River Suir. The castle was was built in the thirteenth century and served as the stronghold of the powerful Butler family. So effective was its design that it was believed to be impregnable, but it finally fell to the earl of Essex in 1599 when heavy artillery was used against it for the first time. During the Irish Confederate Wars it was besieged twice more. At the time of building, Cahir Castle was at the cutting edge of defensive castle design and much of the original structure remains. https://heritageireland.ie/places-to-visit/cahir-castle/

Galbally (Irish: An Gallbhaile, meaning 'town of the stranger or the foreigner') is a village in southeast County Limerick, Ireland, on the border with County Tipperary. It is located at the foot of the Galtee Mountains and at the western approach to the Glen of Aherlow. The Aherlow River, flowing down from the Galtee mountains, runs by the village, to meet the Suir at Kilmoyler a short distance north of Cahir. Galbally is in a valley overlooked by the Galtee Mountains. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.

Burncourt Castle is a fortified house and a National Monument in County Tipperary, Ireland. The castle was originally known as Everard's Castle, and was built by Richard Everard, 1st Baronet (d. 1650), son of politician and judge Sir John Everard. When Richard married Catherine Plunkett in 1620, his father awarded him a large estate around the River Tar. Around 1639 Sir Richard some of his land and began to build a fortified house. It was complete in 1641, and had 26 gables and seven chimneys. Archeological investigation found a cow skeleton in a pit that extended under the east wall of the castle. The cow appeared to have been killed and dismembered and left as a protective votive offering – the flanks were placed next to each other and the head placed on the upper backbone. The Everards took up residence just as the Irish Rebellion of 1641 began. In 1642 Sir Richard joined the Catholic Confederates at Kilkenny and became a member of the Supreme Council. Sir Richard's wife Catherine remained at the castle. In 1649, as Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads advanced on Everard's Castle, Lady Catherine burned it down, earning it the name of the Burned Court. Sir Richard Everard went on fight at the Siege of Limerick (1650–51), but was captured and hung in 1651 by Henry Ireton. Burncourt was abandoned. According to tradition Burncourt was seven years in building, seven years lived in and seven days burning. In the early 18th century, the painter Anthony Chearnley built a house adjoining the Burncourt ruin. The excavation also showed that there was no remaining debris from the castle burning, meaning that the roof slates and lead flashings were salvaged/looted for use elsewhere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burncourt_Castle

Close to the village of Ballylanders and within the graveyard of a ruined church you will find Lady's Well, a holy well linked with curing sore eyes. It is easily recognisable by the blue and white flags and white grotto.

Completed in 1641, Burncourt Castle is a fortified house first known as Everard's Castle. It had a very short history, being burnt down in 1649 by Lady Catherine Everard as Oliver Cromwell's Roundhead came close, hence the name, 'Burned Court'.