gardens around carlow

Set in a small and uniquely beautiful estate, the gardens at Altamont are one of Co Carlow's premier tourist attractions. Features include residential hobby weekends in gardening and painting....

Lisnavagh Gardens is situated close to the Wicklow mountains. The gardens were originally designed by Daniel Robertson (of Powerscourt fame, amongst others) in the 1850's....

Delightful formal and informal gardens at Altamount House which dates to the late 17th Century. The gardens convey a sense of tranquility and timeless beauty both visually and with a rapture of scents. Tender lawns reach to the large, manmade lake whose perimeter walk provides ever changing vistas with rare trees, shrubs and bountiful wild life. A large wild garden with many rare shrubs lead to a dramatic ice-age glen overlooking the River Slaney walk. Facilities: Weekend gardening course...

Parts of Altamont date back to the 1500's when nuns were reputed to live here. A new road was made in about 1720 from Carrickslaney to Kilbride when the then owners of Altamont, the St. George family, were obliged to turn the house back to front. They made new back and front avenues with the handsome granite entrance gates and planted the beech trees to line the avenue and the old Nun's Walk. They also built the bow fronted Georgian dining room and hall porch with its decorative fan light typ...