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A eye cataching display of tress, shrubs and flowers in a rockery and there is a few Bonsai on the 0.3 Hectare of beautiful garden.

The gardens are opened from May to the end of August, Sundays only....

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...