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Gardens In The Republic Of Ireland
List of gardens in Ireland open to the public: * Achill Secret Garden* Avondale House* Altamont House, Altamont Gardens* Bay Garden(Closed indefinitely as of 2022) *Belvedere House and Gardens*Birr Castle* Camas Park* Coolaught Gardens * (Closed indefinitely as of 2022) * Derreen Garden * |
List Of Gardens
The list of gardens is a link page for any park or garden open to the public, anywhere in the world. Argentina *Buenos Aires Botanical Garden Australia Australian Capital Territory *Australian National Botanic Gardens New South Wales *Auburn Botanical Gardens * Royal Botanic Gardens *Wollongong Botanic Garden Queensland * Anderson Park, Townsville * Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha *City Botanic Gardens * The Palmetum, Townsville *Queens Gardens, Townsville *Roma Street Parkland Victoria * Melbourne parks and gardens *Geelong Botanic Gardens Austria * Schönbrunn Palace Gardens * Belvedere Gardens Brazil *Flamengo Park *Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden *Inhotim *Botanical Garden of São Paulo *Sítio Roberto Burle Marx *Botanical Garden of Curitiba *Porto Alegre Botanical Garden *Jardim Botânico de Belo Horizonte *Jardim Botânico de Brasília Canada *Butchart Gardens, Greater Victoria, British Columbia * Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Ontario *Stanley Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmacurragh
The National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh () is a garden and arboretum outside Wicklow Town, County Wicklow, Ireland. It is a satellite of the main National Botanic Gardens located in Glasnevin, County Dublin. The 52 acre gardens are situated 5 km from exit 18 on the M11 motorway. The gardens were founded in 1712 as part of the Acton family estate who owned the land until 1940. Today, the gardens are in State ownership through the Office of Public Works. They were acquired in 1976 by the Land commissioner and day-to-day management transferred to National Botanic Gardens in 1996. History The story of Kilmacurragh stretches back beyond the establishment of the gardens to early Christian times when Saint Mochorog established a hermitage in the 7th century. A lake, part of which remains as a small pond, once existed as a fishing pond for a monastery that stood where the remains of the Acton family home stand today. This monastery was dissolved by Henry VII and the lands g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killruddery House
Killruddery House (also spelled "Kilruddery") is a large country house on the southern outskirts of Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland, approximately south of Dublin.Kilruddery House, KILRUDDERY DEMESNE WEST, Bray, WICKLOW The present structure is a south facing multi-bay mansion, originally dating from the 17th century, but remodelled and extended in 1820 in the Elizabethan style. It is constructed as variously single, two, three and four storeys in the shape of an irregular quadrangle enclosing a courtyard. To the north an office wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmokea
Kilmokea ( ga, Cill Mac Aodh) is located on Great Island, a small peninsula within the Hook peninsula where the Barrow, Suir and Campile rivers meet, close to the Slieve Coillte, the highest point on the Hook peninsula, from the town of New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland. It is a former Georgian rectory, situated on a 6th-century monastic site. Since 1948 it features a seven-acre garden, which has been turned into a garden featuring a wide range of subtropical plants and organic vegetables. History According to some sources Kilmokea, or Mileadoc was the spot at which Cessair, the granddaughter of Noah, escaping the flood, made the first incursion or invasion into Ireland in 2242 B.C. In the 6th century an early ecclesiastical enclosure was established in the townland of Great Island when it was an actual island. In the 8th century a church was founded here by Suadbar, hence the reference in the name by a Kil ( ga, Cill), the Gaelic word for church. It was the church of Mac Ao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilfane
Kilfane () is a combination of two townlands located outside of Thomastown in County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is made up of the townlands of Kilfane East and West with a total area of . Located in the barony of Gowran, Kilfane gives its name to the wider civil parish which contains 16 townlands. It is in the Roman Catholic parish of Tullaherin. This is also the site of the 13th-century Kilfane Church, now in ruins, which has an adjoining castellated presbytery or stone house. There are traces of the original consecration crosses to be seen, the ogee headed doorways, remains of the altar, sedilia and book rest. Inside the ruined church on the North Wall is the effigy of a Norman Knight in full armour. It is referred to as Cantwell Fada and this effigy is the tallest of its kind in Britain or Ireland. Kilfane House was the seat of the Power family who were responsible for the creation of Kilfane Glen and Waterfall which is now a tourist attraction containing a romantic era (Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kells Bay Gardens
Kells may refer to: Places Republic of Ireland * Kells, County Kerry * Kells, County Kilkenny ** Kells Priory * Kells, County Meath ** Abbey of Kells ** Kells (Parliament of Ireland constituency) until 1800 United Kingdom * Kells, County Antrim, Northern Ireland * Kells, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England * Kells, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Other uses * Kells (band), a French band * Kells (name), including a list of people with the name * Kells A.R.L.F.C., an English rugby league club * Tribal leaders of alien clans in the video game '' Destiny'' See also * * Kell (other) * The Book of Kells (other) ** Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, c. 800 AD * Kells railway station (other) * Port Kells Port Kells is a neighborhood of Guildford, a town center in Surrey, British Columbia. The neighborhood is located in the northeastern sector of Guildford, and is adjacent to the Fraser River and west of Walnut Grove, Langley. It h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Blake's Garden
June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. June contains the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours, and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases). June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern Hemisphere, the beginning of the traditional astronomical summer is 21 June (meteorological summer begins on 1 June). In the Southern Hemisphere, meteorological winter begins on 1 June. At the start of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Taurus; at the end of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnstown Castle
Johnstown Castle is a Gothic Revival castle located in County Wexford, Ireland. Location Johnstown Castle is located on the Johnstown Castle Estate, a estate, located off the road between Murntown and Rathaspeck, southwest of Wexford town. History The first castle built on the estate was a tower house built in the late 12th century by the Esmonde family, Normans who came to southeast Ireland from Lincolnshire in the 1170s after the Norman invasion of Ireland (1169). They also built a tower house, which still stands, at Rathlannan immediately to the south. Oliver Cromwell spent a night on the estate in 1649, prior to the October 1649 Sack of Wexford. His Roundhead army used the land around Johnstown Castle to prepare. The Esmondes, Catholics, were expelled during the Cromwellian years. Johnstown Castle was bought by the Grogan family in 1692. Owner Cornelius Grogan was hanged for his part in the 1798 Rebellion; he had been commissary-general for the United Irishmen. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John F
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish National Stud
The Irish National Stud (official name: ''Comhlacht Graí Náisiúnta na hÉireann Teo.'') is a Thoroughbred horse breeding facility in Tully, Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland. It was formally established by incorporation on 11 April 1946 under the National Stud Act, 1945 and is owned by the Irish Government. History The Japanese Gardens at Tully were created between the years 1906–1910. They were devised by Colonel William Hall-Walker (later Lord Wavertree), a wealthy Scotsman of a famous brewery family, and laid out by Japanese craftsman Tassa Eida and his son Minoru. Tassa, his wife and two sons lived at Curragh House, now the Racing Apprentice Centre of Education. Tassa remained at Tully until 1911 when he and his family moved to London to create another garden. Tassa Eida died in 1912 on his intended return journey to Japan and no more was heard of him or his family until Brian Eida, a son of Minoru, turned up as a tourist in the late 1980s to admire the work of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish National War Memorial Gardens
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens ( ga, Gairdíní Náisiúnta Cuimhneacháin Cogaidh na hÉireann) is an Irish war memorial in Islandbridge, Dublin, dedicated "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914–1918",Dúchas The Heritage Service, Visitors Guide to the Gardens, from the Office of Public Works out of a total of 206,000 Irishmen who served in the British forces alone during the war. The Memorial Gardens also commemorate all other Irish men and women who at that time served, fought and died in Irish regiments of the Allied armies, the British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and United States armies in support of the Triple Entente's war effort against the Central Powers. History Following a meeting of over 100 representatives from all parts of Ireland on 17 July 1919, a trust fund was created to consider plans and designs for a permanent memorial "to commemorate all those Irish men and women ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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