Macroom Travel Guide

For an unforgettable, luxury stay, choose Castle Hotel & Leisure Centre. Don and Gerard, the owners, are nice and welcoming. The Castle offers an award winning restaurant, lively bar and beautifully decorated en suite rooms. The Castle’s new Health and Leisure Club features a 16 metre pool, steam room, solarium and jacuzzi. Horse riding, fishing (course and game) and free pitch and putt are all available locally, while golf enthusiasts can enjoy reduced green fees on Macroom’s excellent 18 hole park lands course. Just 5 miles off Macroom visit Gearagh. It is a unique and ancient oak forest, the only extensive alluvial forest in Ireland or Britain, and probably in Western Europe. The rich ecology makes it home to many rare species of flora and fauna and is a naturalist's dream... Truly fascinating...

Most central town in Co.Cork! Traffic's bad but has a nice town centre. The Gearagh, just outside the town, is an important nature reserve in Europe.