OPW Heritage Ireland places in County Tipperary

Thirteenth-century Butler stronghold on an island in the River Suir in Cahir town, with an audio-visual show and free guided tours; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, council car park beside it.

The Widow McCormack's farmhouse near Ballingarry where the Young Irelanders besieged the police in July 1848, now a small free OPW museum of the rebellion; by appointment only, booked two days ahead, weekend afternoons in winter, car park.

A four-storey Butler tower house of about 1500 with the remains of its bawn beside Grallagh Bridge near Horse and Jockey, given by Lord Dunboyne to his son in 1533; free, open-air, ground floor only.

A small Romanesque church with a chevron-carved doorway on the slopes of Slievenamon, its graveyard holding carved 18th-century headstones and the sealed mausoleum of the Butlers of Kilcash; free, open-air.

St Ruadhán's early stone church with a carved 15th-century doorway, the bases of two early high crosses and the ruined Augustinian priory nearby, at the east end of Lorrha village in north Tipperary; free, open-air.

The ruined Dominican priory of St Peter of Verona, founded in 1269 at the south-western end of Lorrha in north Tipperary, with six pairs of lancet windows and O'Kennedy and Egan memorials; free, open-air.

The Duke of Ormond's seventeenth-century palatinate courthouse at the head of Clonmel's main street, later a barracks, restored as a free exhibition and concert space behind its sandstone arcade; open mid March to late September, lift.

The restored round keep of the Butlers' Norman castle of about 1200 in the centre of Nenagh, with 101 steps to the top for views over the town and gardens beside it; free, open Tuesday to Saturday, under-18s with an adult, town parking.

Ireland's finest Elizabethan manor house, built in 1565 by Black Tom Butler beside his medieval castle on the Suir, its plasterwork great hall by guided tour, March to early November; adult €5, free for English Heritage members.

Round tower, Romanesque Cormac's Chapel, Gothic cathedral and the Hall of the Vicars Choral on the limestone rock of the kings of Munster; adult €8, free for English Heritage members, pay-on-exit car park below.

The 1280s castle in the heart of Roscrea with its gate tower and banqueting hall, the pre-Palladian Damer House, a walled garden and the Black Mills with St Crónán's high cross; 2026 tours Wednesday to Sunday, Damer House closed for works.

Regency cottage orne attributed to John Nash on the River Suir south of Cahir, its thatched roof and restored interiors seen by guided tour only, March to early November; adult €5, free for English Heritage members.