Monkstown Golf Club is a 18-hole, par

Par (score)

The word "par" is a term in the game of golf used to denote the pre-determined number of strokes that a scratch golfer should require to complete a hole, a round , or a tournament...

 70 golf course

Golf course

A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...

 located in Parkgarriff, Monkstown

Monkstown, County Cork

Monkstown is a village in County Cork, Ireland, in the old barony of Kerrycurrihy. It lies 9 miles southeast of Cork city on the estuary of the River Lee, facing Great Island and looking onto Monkstown Bay....

, Co. Cork.
It was founded in 1908 as a 9-hole course. The course was expanded in 1971 to an 18-hole course.

The course is built around Monkstown Castle which was built in 1636 and served as the clubhouse from 1908 until the 1971 when the building fell into disrepair.

In 2006, a new clubhouse was opened with top-class modern facilities such as cleaning bays and a fully equipped bar

Bar (establishment)

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 and restaurant

Restaurant

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