Reach out and touch the past through a wide range of audio visual technologies and specialist multi media techniques. Join in the living interpretation and re-enactment with costumed guides who reveal the secrets and scandals of castle life.
Test your skill with our medieval courtyard games and enjoy stunning views from this stronghold of sagas, sieges and soldiers
You will also meet an array of colourful characters like Willem the cheerful Moneyer, the grim Constable Roger De Lees and more.
Visitors can try on historic costumes - 18th century dresses or chainmail tunics.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of medieval Limerick and let touch screen technology connect you to tales of siege and warfare.
Visitors of all ages will find something to inspire and excite them at the brand new visitor experience at King John’s Castle.
A brand new visitor experience that brings together the Castle’s remarkable archaeology and 21st century technology to help you discover the history of Limerick and King John’s Castle.
21st century touch-screen technology, 3D models and discovery drawers are among the exciting techniques that will connect visitors to tales of siege and warfare. Students will love the dazzling array of computer generated animations and ghostly projections as they travel back through time.
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