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Gowran, County Kilkenny

Things to do in Gowran

Find places that fit your time and your plans. 5 of them are in Gowran itself and 154 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.

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Showing 96 of 159 places, with photographs first. Every kind of place in Gowran lists the rest.

5
in Gowran
154
within 12 km
95
outdoors
26
indoors
15
for children

Put a day together

An afternoon on foot in Gowran: 4 stops the map records, in the shortest order that walks them all, 2.07 km in total.

Gowran in an afternoon

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While you are there

5 places to eat and 0 places to stay on the map in Gowran, and 2 bus and train lines calling here.

Places to eat·Gowran on the map·Getting to Gowran

Questions people ask

What is there to do in Gowran?
5 places inside Gowran and 154 more within twelve kilometres, mostly ringforts and sites, holy wells and historic churches.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Gowran?
2 bus and train lines call at a stop in Gowran in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Gowran page.

Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Gowran.