Blarney House and Gardens - Co. Cork

Cork

200 yards south of Blarney Castle, the tastefully restored family home built in 1864 overlooks Blarney Lake and has a formal garden and acres of parkland with rare and unusual trees.

Blarney House, situated just 200 yards south of the great castle itself, is one of the most elegant and gracious of the Great Houses of Ireland, a family home now tastefully restored. Built in 1874 it is beautifully situated overlooking Blarney Lake. The house is set in acres of parkland filled with rare and unusual trees including many maples, southern beech and giant western red cedars. In spring the grounds are carpeted with bulbs and the 'Belgian beds', full of hybrid azaleas, are in full flower. There are formal gardens around the house with manicured lawns, rose-beds, mixed shrub beds, which contain many rhododendrons. The house looks down over green pastures, where horses and cattle graze, to Blarney Lake. You may take pleasant stroll around the lake and woodland walks. There is a fern garden with the atmosphere of a tropical jungle, a horse's graveyard, the ruin of an old limekiln, a Victorian 'ice house' and behind the stable yard is the new herbaceous border.

There are conducted tours of the house which is open during the summer season.

8km from Cork City

2 May to 31 August (approx.) Mon-Sat 10.00-14.00

Details on application

Two Souvenir shops, Bureau de Change, refreshments, restored stable yard, Blarney Lake and wildlife, arboretum and gardens, garden walk and woodlands walks, fern garden, ice-house, limekiln and caves.

Blarney House and Gardens,
Blarney, Co. Cork.

Tel: +353 21 438 5252
Fax: +353 21 438 1518