page_title: Musgrave Park, Belfast
section_title: Sporting facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Musgrave Park, Belfast / Sporting facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Grovelands Park, Belfast Grovelands park and ornamental gardens is located off Stockman's Lane in south Belfast. Until recently it was used as a base for horticultural apprentices working in the parks and cemeteries section of Belfast City Council. This has now been discontinued but the park remains open for visitors and contains a range of trees, shrubs, conifers, heathers, bedding displays and lawns.
context_page_description: Musgrave Park is a public park in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  Situated in the south west of the city, in Ballygammon townland off Stockman's Lane, the surrounding area is a mix of trading estates and residential housing, with the M1 motorway passing close to one end.
  Facilities include a bowling pavilion, playing fields, walks, nature areas and bottle banks. Since 2010, it has been developing a therapy garden. The adjoining Musgrave Park Hospital specialises in rehabilitation for all ages.
  Grovelands, a smaller park running alongside and to the south, is connected to Musgrave by the main pathway which runs through both.
context_section_description: The first bowling green was built in the park in 1926. Today there are two greens and a pavilion. Musgrave Park Lawn Bowls Club is based here, part of the Northern Ireland Bowling Association, and during the summer there are regular tournaments. The pavilion offers indoor bowling for casual play during the close season.
  Since 2008, Musgrave Park has offered pitches for Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. These are managed in association with St Brigid's Gaelic Athletic Club. In their Investment Programme 2012-1015 Belfast City Council planned to build changing facilities. 
  There are six tarmac tennis courts, of which in 2012 two were playable, with plans to upgrade all of them.
caption: A willow tree grows in the former boating pond, now drained, at Grovelands Park.
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