GARDENS OPEN 85 Thornyhill Road An eco-friendly cottage garden of roughly an acre, in picturesque drumlin country. More gardens to visit ALL GARDENS Battle of the Boyne – Oldbridge Estate On the banks of the River Boyne, Oldbridge is a 500-acre estate with restored gardens. VISIT St. Stephen’s Green In the heart of Dublin’s shopping district lies one of Ireland’s best-known public parks. VISIT National Botanic Gardens Kilmacurragh Home to seven generations of the Acton family, these 104 acres boast an important collection of rare trees and shrubs, southern hemisphere conifers and 300 varieties of rhododendron. VISIT Dower House Charming gardens surrounding this late eighteenth-century house were laid out towards the end of the nineteenth century. VISIT Corke Lodge Garden ‘There is more fun at Corke Lodge’, writes Jane Powers in The Irish Times, "where the 'ancient garden' of box parterres is punctuated by melancholy gothic follies and emerges eerily from the dense boskage of evergreen… VISIT The John F. Kennedy Arboretum Covers 252 hectares on the summit and southern slopes of Slieve Coillte and contains 4,500 types of trees and shrubs from temperate regions of the world. VISIT
