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The National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh (Irish: Garraithe Náisiúnta na Lus, Cill Mochura) 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.
Pages in category "Gardens in County Wicklow" ... National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh; P. Powerscourt Estate; R.
Wicklow is part of the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bounded by four counties, Dublin to the north; Kildare and Carlow to the west; Wexford to the south; and the Irish Sea to the east. Wicklow is the 17th largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties by land area, and the 16th most populous.
The gardens are also responsible for the arboretum at Kilmacurragh, County Wicklow, a centre noted for its conifers and calcifuges. This is located some 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Dublin. A gateway into Glasnevin Cemetery adjacent to the gardens was reopened in recent years.
The estate passed on to his widow, Mary Averell Harriman, who a year later donated 10,000 acres (40 km 2) and one million dollars to New York State to start Harriman State Park. The 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m 2 ) Arden House [ 3 ] was designed in an American Beaux-Arts style, and unique among the Gilded Age Estates for being wholly American in ...
The valley was formed by the meltwater from a massive ice sheet. The rocks forming the sides of are the same quartzite of the two Sugarloaf hills to the north. [6] The Three Trouts River, actually a stream, flows from the Great Sugarloaf (three sources), down through the wooded Glen from north to south before turning sharply East through Delgany village, forming a smaller glen (Glenowen or ...
The Hidden Gardens of Ireland, Marianne Heron, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1993 ISBN 0-7171-2029-5 O'Brien Guide to Irish Gardens , Shirley lanigan, O'Brien press, Dublin, 2001 ISBN 0-86278-632-0 The Gardens of Ireland , Jack Whaley, Poolbeg Press Limited, Dublin, 1990 ISBN 1-85371-073-3
As of 2016, their son Anthony Brabazon (heir apparent to the Earl of Meath title) and his wife Fionnuala manage the house, gardens and farm, and also live in the house with their four children. [9] The property is managed as a working farm with a variety of enterprises to earn the funds to maintain the estate and provide a living.