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Extract from the Strokestown Travel Guides:
In the east of the county is
STROKESTOWN
, a gem of a planned town whose reason for existence is Strokestown Park House, once the centre of the second biggest estate in Roscommon after Rockingham. The enormously wide main street - reputedly the result of an ambition on the part of an early owner to have the widest street in Europe - ends abruptly in a castellated wall with three Gothic arches, behind which lies Strokestown Park House.
The
St John's Heritage Centre
(May-Sept Mon-Fri 9.30am-1pm & 2-3.30pm, Sat & Sun 2-6pm; 2/?2.54) is located in the elegant St John's church, designed in 1819...
read the whole Strokestown Travel Guides...
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