Gardens open to visit

Real gardens across the island, from walled demesnes to one-family plots — with when to catch them at their best.

Brigit’s Garden

Unique Celtic-themed gardens representing the Celtic festivals of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa and mirroring the cycle of life.

Brigit’s Garden

Unique Celtic-themed gardens representing the Celtic festivals of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa and mirroring the cycle of life.

Brockagh Wood

Living better with nature. A rewilding habitat created during lockdown 2020. This 15-acre site includes a two-acre pond, native wildflower meadows, marginal plants, water lilies, moorhens, mallard ducks and little gre…
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Brook Hall Estate & Gardens

Brook Hall Estate and Gardens is a eighteenth century demesne, home to one of the finest private arboretums in the north west of Ireland with unique collections of conifers, rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias.

Castletown House

Castletown House, Ireland’s first and largest Palladian-style house, is a beautifully restored eighteenth-century mansion.

Clandeboye Estate

A series of intimate walled gardens adjoin the courtyard and house.

Clayburn

Clayburn has been transformed from an exposed site in the shadow of Slemish Mountain to become a low maintenance, prairie-style garden.

Clendinning Cottage

This is an established garden on an ancient site incorporating a bronze age stone circle.

Clonohill Gardens

A country garden on working farm, featuring woodland, Jacob's walk, colour themed herbaceous boarders, a striking stand of Himalayan birch with the Slieve Bloom Mountains providing colourful backdrop and walled garden…
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Cluain na dTor

Best described as Donegal's 'exotic garden' - the planting is boldly experimental.

Coolwater

A garden that beats to a different drum!

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…