Grovelodge Bed & Breakfast :: Windsor Grove :: Thurles :: Co. Tipperary :: Ireland. Telephone:0504 24573 Mobile Telephone: 086-2492345
		Address Windsor Grove Thurles Co. Tipperary Ireland Telephone (0504) 24573 or (086) 2492345 International Telephone + 353 504 24573 or +353 86 2492345				Thurles Town is the birthplace of the GAA. Lar na Páirce is a GAA Museum and an interpretative centre of Gaelic Games . It was officially opened by President Mary Robinson in November 1994 to mark the 110th anniversary of the foundation of the G.A.A. in Hayes's Hotel, Thurles. It is located on Slievenamon Road, Thurles. Lar na Páirce		Thurles Cathedral St. Marys Famine Museum St. Mary's Church, Thurles, Co.Tipperary. St.Mary's was originally built in the 12th century by the Normans. The present building is the 3rd Church to be built on this site, having been erected in 1820. This church is still used by the Church of Ireland community to-day as a place of worship. In 1995 the Thurles Church of Ireland community donated one third of this building to create a famine museum to commemorate those who lost their lives through disease & starvation, both here and abroad, during the Great Famine of 1845-1850.