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 once belonged to the famous Ned
of the Hill, an Irish Earl who was outlawed after James II's
defeat at the Battle of the Boyne, who did not fly the country but
stayed behind to fight for his countrymen and who hid-out in and
around the Black Hill. 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.
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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.
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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. |
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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, or at one of the
excellent restaurants in the area. No meals at Rusheen House
contain meat, although fish is available on request. Wherever
possible we buy local and organic produce.
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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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