Parks And Gardens

Located in the sheltered harbour of Glengarriff in Bantry Bay, Ilnacullin is a small island of 15 hectares (37 acres) known to horticulturists and lovers of trees and shrubs all around the world.

Attractions include exhibitions, nature trails, audio-visual show. In addition there is a summer programme of walks, talks and special events for younger visitors.

Coole Park, now a nature reserve, was the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, dramatist and co-founder with Edward Martyn and W.B. Yeats of the Abbey Theatre.

Kylemore Abbey is the Monastic home of the Benedictine Order of Nuns in Ireland.

This great stone castle was founded in the early 13th century and became the principal residence of the Kildare branch of the Geraldines.

The great semi-fortified house at Portumna was built before 1618 by Richard Burke or de Burgo, 4th Earl of Clanricarde.

Thoor Ballylee is well known as the summer home of the poet W.B. Yeats and as the setting of his poems, “The Winding Stair” and “The Tower”.

The Castle Park includes all the walled demesne parkland to the south and the formal terraced gardens to the north .There is a small burial ground, a woodland walk, lake and a childrens playground.

You will be captivated from the moment you arrive when you get your first taste of honey rich mead.

A restored plantation caslte of the early seventeenth century, picturesquely situated on the shores of Lough Gill.