Tipperary Mountain Trekking Centre, Ireland

Rusheen House

Rusheen House is a restored Irish farmhouse, with access to several hundred acres of off-road hill walking and pony trekking routes, including the beautiful Black Hill. The peaceful and informal atmosphere at Rusheen House is perfect for a relaxing stay in the countryside.

The countryside around Rusheen has been inhabited since pre-Celtic times and the landscape still bears testament to the earth-workings and fortifications of those ancient peoples. Local legend has it that the lands were also roamed by the famous Ned of the Hill, an Irish gentleman and scholar who was outlawed after trying to save an old widow from the bailiffs. His subsequent deeds of bravery and chivalry earned him place in history as Ireland's Robin Hood, and local people are proud to claim direct descent from him. It is for this reason that horses are forever welcome in the mountains around Rusheen. In the Eighteenth Century, Rusheen was a settlement of 26 families. Stricken by famine, the area was de-populated and once-thriving homesteads fell into ruin. Only the wild fuchsias and lilac trees remind us that an acre was once a carefully and lovingly tended garden.

Accommodation at Tipperary Mountain Trekking Centre

Rusheen House is one of the few farms that survived the famine and subsequent diaspora. Built in pre-Georgian times, with exterior walls over a metre thick in places, the house has always provided a friendly welcome and shelter from hardship for generations of children. There were thirteen children of the family in the 1950s, and thirteen children in the neighbouring farm. Fantastic games of football were played between the two sides in the fields above the house, while the three mile walk over the hills to the local school is still visible, although the school itself closed down some years back.  

Accommodation

The house was occupied by the same family for countless generations until it was sold in the late 1990s. It was sympathetically and tastefully restored and refurbished by the present owners, who have added a guest floor comprising:
• three luxury bedrooms
• a massive guest bathroom
• double Jacuzzi.

Guest accommodation comprises a twin room, a double room, and a family room (one double and two single beds). All bedrooms have wash-hand basins. The guest bathroom is spacious and contains a power shower and double jacuzzi. Guests can relax in our comfortable sitting room, which contains a library of books as well as a grand piano and satellite TV, and where meals are also served.

We provide complimentary tea, herb tea and coffee (including decaff) for guests. We can also provide towels and hairdryers on request.

Guests can go hill-walking or horse-riding on site at Tipperary Mountain Trekking Centre, while children will be keep happy on our trampoline, splashing about in the stream, or playing one of our many board games. After an exhilarating day you can while away an evening with our library of books, or chill out in front of sattelite TV.

 Good, wholesome, home-cooked meals can be ordered at Rusheen House. No meals at Rusheen House contain meat, although fish is available on request. Wherever possible we buy local and organic produce. For a sample menu, click here.

There are also a range of restaurants in the area, catering for all tastes and budgets from Cordon Bleu to Carry Out. We will be happy to recommend one to suit you.

Our accommodation is approved by Responsible Travel Sustainable Tourism Ireland and it's a green green world

In 2008 we received the new Equine Tourism Accreditation from Failte Ireland and AIRE.

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Tipperary Mountain Trekking Centre,
Rusheen, Borrisoleigh, Tipperary, Ireland.
Ph: +353 (0) 87 410 6868
Email: info@timotrec.com, Web: www.timotrec.com

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