Colclough Walled Garden, July 2022

COLCLOUGH  WALLED GARDEN Historic Tintern Abbey was founded by the Cistercian Monks in c1203 under the patronage of William Marshal, first Earl of Pembroke. In 1562, the Abbey was granted to the Colclough (pronounced Coke-lee) family and soon after the church was converted into living quarters. The Colclough family lived [...]

By |2022-07-16T18:29:26+01:00July 15th, 2022|Gardens, Historical|0 Comments

Mount Usher Garden

Mount Usher Gardens Ashford, County Wicklow, Ireland. This garden, covering 22 acres (8.9 hectares) is described as a “Robinsonian Style” Wild Garden. A unique space filled with magnificent, towering tree specimens and thick shrubbery with meandering solid pathways through which you may explore the woodland, water garden and sit and relax to [...]

By |2024-01-19T16:22:33+00:00May 25th, 2021|Gardens|0 Comments

Woodville House and Garden

Woodville House and Garden Woodville House and Garden is located on the outskirts of the town of New Ross, County Wexford on a working farm owned by Gerald and Helen Roche. The Victorian house was built in 1810 and originally owned by Gerald’s Great Great Grandfather, a grain merchant from Enniscorthy who bought the [...]

By |2021-05-29T16:00:49+01:00May 20th, 2021|Gardens, Nature|0 Comments

Coolaught Garden and Garden Center

Coolaught Garden and Garden Center   I have visited Coolaught Garden on several occasions at different times of the year. My first reaction is always “so peaceful”. You are drawn into this garden of lush foliage and well positioned flowering plants, a garden adventure, strolling along manicured grass pathways that [...]

By |2021-06-05T17:36:15+01:00July 31st, 2017|Activity, Gardens, Nature|0 Comments

Kilmokea Country Manor & Gardens; wander through lush woodland with a colourful, peaceful atmosphere

Kilmokea House & Gardens, seven acres of manicured walled area and lush tropical, jungle like woodland, a peaceful experience with a magical touch for all the family. Kilmokea, a manor house and garden with Viking and Norman Heritage located near the Barrow River on the island of “Great Island” near Campile in County Wexford, [...]

By |2017-07-15T16:22:06+01:00May 22nd, 2017|Activity, Gardens, Nature|0 Comments

Colclough Walled Garden, a restored Victorian Geometric Gardenesque Wonder

COLCLOUGH WALLED GARDEN The Colclough estate of Tintern was occupied by the Colclough family from the 16th Centaury up to the 1960s, Lucy Marie Colclough being the last member to live there.   This Cistercian Abbey was founded in c1203 by William Marshal, the Earl of Pembroke as the result of a vow he [...]

By |2017-07-15T16:22:06+01:00April 10th, 2017|Activity, Gardens, Nature|0 Comments
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