Gardens

Marlay Demense

Dublin

Mr. David La Touche purchased the Estate in 1764. La Touche extended the original house and renamed it Marlay having married Elizabeth Marlay daughter of the right Rev. George Marlay, Bishop of Dromore. The Estate today comprises of some 200 acres of parkland including Marlay Park and Gardens.

Kells Bay House & Gardens

Kerry

The 40 acres of gardens are laid out along a fast flowing stream and through the imposing entrance gates a waterfall is visible. Originally planted in the mid-nineteenth century, this is an opportunity to visit them at a magnificent stage of their restoration.

Brigit's Garden

Galway

Brigit's Garden offers a touch of magic in the heart of Ireland's West, at the gateway to Connemara. The 11-acre site bring Celtic heritage to life through nature, art and unique gardens themed on Celtic festivals.

Killruddery House & Gardens

Wicklow

Killruddery is unique in having the most extensive early formal gardens, still in their original style, surviving in Ireland. Dating from the 1680s they are amongst the most important gardens of their type in these islands. Killruddery Estate has been in the ownership of the Brabazon family (the Earls of Meath) since 1618. The core of the gardens is a pair of canals (550 feet long).

Mount Usher Gardens

Wicklow

Mount Usher gardens measure 20 acres. The Vartry River flows through it, passing over weirs and under several bridges, from where different views of the gardens can be enjoyed.

Irish National Stud, Museum, Japanese & St Fiachra's Gardens

Kildare

The world famous Japanese Gardens are situated 45km south of Dublin off the R415 in the estate of The Irish National Stud at Tully just outside Kildare town.

Turlough Park & National Museum of Ireland - Country Life

Mayo

Turlough Park is a small demesne in the parish of Turlough. In the mid 19th Century the Fitzgerald Family commissioned the distinguished architect Sir Thomas Newenham Deane to design the house which was built in 1865.

Lough Rynn Castle Estate & Gardens

Leitrim

Lough Rynn, one of Irelands most luxurious Castle Hotels, the ancestral home of the Clements family and the legendary Lord Leitrim, it is one of few Irish estates that can trace its history back to royal families.

Mount Stewart House & Gardens

Down

Fascinating eighteenth-century house with nineteenth-century additions, home of Lord Castlereagh; one of the greatest gardens in these islands, largely created by the wife of the seventh Marquis of Londonderry, with an unrivalled collection of rare and unusual plants, colourful parterres and magnificent formal and informal vistas

Rowallane Garden

Down

Acknowledged as a real plantsmans garden, Rowallane is renowned for its peaceful, intimate character.

The Talbot Botanic Gardens

Dublin

The Gardens as they exist today were largely created by Lord Milo Talbot in the years 1948 to 1973 and cover an area of over 8 ha - 6.5 ha of shrubbery and 1.5 ha of Walled Gardens.

Vandeleur Walled Garden

Clare

Beautiful old stone walls contain this sheltered garden (2.158 acres), which is set among 420 acres of native woodland.

Kilmokea Gardens

Wexford

Kilmokea is situated on the joint estuary of the Nore and the Barrow. The gardens, which cover almost 3ha, fall into two distinct parts. Around the house are the formal walled gardens and set into the stone wall a heavy wooden door leads you into the magical world of of the lower garden.

Coolcarrigan Gardens

Kildare

The house, built in c.1838 stands at the end of one of the most spectacular avenues to be found in the Ireland. A fantastic display of spring bulbs, snowdrops, daffodils, and bluebells gives way later to rhododendrons and azaleas in June.

Primrose Hill

Dublin

Primrose Hill House is a regency villa attributed to the architect James Gandon. Its political history is connected with Dr. Irwin and Eamon de Valera who was a frequent visitor to the house. The house and grounds were part of the Lucan House Demesne, celebrating 50 years in 2008.

Palm House Botanic Gardens, Belfast City

Antrim

With one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear and cast iron glasshouse, The Palm House in Belfast's Botanic Gardens is well known for its good plant collections

Lisselan Gardens

Cork

Lisselan Gardens was designed in the 1800s and laid out in Robinsonian style, enhancing the natural features and contours provided by the valley and the river Argideen flowing throughout.

Lodge Park Walled Garden & Steam Museum

Kildare

The restoration of this eighteenth-century walled garden adjoining Lodge Park, a Palladian house of 1773, started in 1980. The old brick-faced walls look much as they did when it was built, and here fruit, flowers, and vegetables are grown for the house.

Newtownbarry House, Gardens & Gallery

Wexford

A large Victorian house built in an austere, Italianate, classical style, granite faced, it was commissioned by Robert Westley Hall-Dare and built to the design of Sir Charles Lanyon. The house was built on the site of the Maxwell-Barry house, Woodfield.

Lismore Castle Gardens & Gallery

Waterford

The West Wing of Lismore Castle has been converted into a contemporary art space which will be an added attraction for the gardens and included in the admission charge. There will be at least one art exhibition every year with an emphasis on excellence.

Ballynacourty

Limerick

Twenty five years ago Ballynacourty was surrounded by open fields; today the gardens extend to approximately 3 ha. Soil depth is critical as this is a limestone area with stone outcrops close to the surface.

Enniscoe Gardens

Mayo

Enniscoe House is situated on the shores of Lough Conn. Few traces remain of the 18th century gardens, but in the period 1840 to 1950 three generations of the family were keen and knowledgeable gardeners. After 1950 the gardens fell into decline.

Woodstock Gardens & Arboretum

Kilkenny

Woodstock Gardens and Arboretum are located just outside the village of Inistioge on the banks of the River Nore in County Kilkenny. Woodstock gardens were once considered one of the great gardens of Ireland and attracted many visitors.

Kilfane Glen and Waterfall

Kilkenny

A romantic woodland garden dating from 1790, Kilfane Glen was designed to display Nature in all her terrifying beauty. Winding paths, clifftops, cascading stream, a hermits grotto, a waterfall and a tiny cottage orné work their magic on every visitor.

Cashel House Hotel Restaurant and Garden

Galway

The gardens are informal country house style gardens based on a number of woodland glades. The garden contains a profusion of roses both old fashioned and modern and many herbaceous plants with naturalised day lillies, astilbes and primulas also gunnera, camelias, magnolias, azaleas, eucryphia and rhododedrons.

Powerscourt Gardens

Wicklow

One of the worlds great gardens situated 20km south of Dublin in the foothills of the Wicklow mountains.

Tullynally Castle Gardens

Westmeath

Tullynally has been owned by the Pakenhams, later Earls of Longford, since the 17th century. The original fortified house was remodelled by the 2nd Earl as a huge rambling Gothic revival castle in the early 1800s, now one of the largest in Ireland to survive as a family home.

Birr Castle Demesne

Offaly

Ireland's Largest, Award-Winning Gardens feature beautiful natural landscapes and stunning formal gardens. The world's tallest box hedges, Victorian fenery, lake, rivers and waterfall provide an unforgettable day.

Glanleam

Kerry

Glanleam is an elegant house overlooking the ocean on this wonderful island of Valentia, just off the Kerry coast - 50 acres of superb subtropical gardens.

Knockabbey Castle & Gardens

Louth

Knockabbey Castle has evolved over the last millennium and each of the families who lived there have left their mark. The gardens contain some of the finest historical water gardens to be found anywhere in the country, dating back to the 11th century. The gardens contain a wide range of magnificent specimen trees and is tulip tree ranks among the largest and finest in Ireland.

Ballindoolin House and Garden

Kildare

In the woods there is a 11/2 mile Heritage and Nature Trail and a Tree Folklore Trail, which passes a rare shamrock, shaped dove cote, a lime kiln and an iron age mound. There is a demesne museum in the farmyard.