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Strokestown is a very quiet town and apart from Strokestown Park House and the National Famine Museum has little else for the average tourist. It is however ideally located just west of the Shannon in the Irish Midlands and is an excellent touring base. Its appeal is its quiet air and relaxed laid back nature with a couple of pleasant local pubs. There are a couple of nice eateries with a Chinese restaurant and the Percy French Hotel.

Strokestown is a pleasant but small village in Co. Roscommon in the Irish Midlands.. There are a range of facilities including SuperValu & SPAR supermarkets which have a good range of what you would expect to find. Basically the village is four roads intersecting at a roundabout. The shortest of these roads leads to Strokestown Park. The house there is the National Famine Museum but it was closed during our visit. The gardens were open and we wandered around these. They are quite pleasant but the grass badly needed cutting and gave a neglected feel. Eating out was disappointing - we tried a hotel and a Chinese establishment offered all you could eat for a fixed price (on the night we went). Both were mediocre. There are some takeaways and the couple we used were OK. To visit you really need a car although there are bus services but no railway. Twenty minutes away is the town of Longford, much bigger & far more facilities. It has a railway station which we used for a day excursion to Dublin. Also nearby is the riverside town of Carrick on Shannon and the substantial ruins of Boyle Abbey.