Ballyhoura country offers the tourist a wide variety of walking - exploring riverbanks, quiet country roads, rugged mountains, rich bogs, and mythical landscapes. Mitchelstown is the ideal base to explore the walking trails of the three counties, Limerick, Tipperary and Cork. Galty Castle Woods lies 10km northeast of the town and a network of looped walks have been developed here. Sadly, there is no castle! Built in the late 1700s as a hunting lodge for the second Earl of Kingston, it was ...