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Admission Free:Altamont Gardens, Tullow, County Carlow
 

Admission Free:Altamont Gardens, Tullow, County Carlow

Tullow, County Carlow

Altamont near Tullow, County Carlow is an enchanting blend of formal and informal gardens on a 100 acre estate. Whilst still little known, it ranks in the top ten of Irish gardens and is often referred to as 'the jewel in Ireland's gardening crown'

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Immediately beneath the 18th-century house are the formal gardens with their rosebeds and pergolas, a giant Wellingtonia surrounded by Portugal Laurel, planted to commemorate Waterloo, a peony walk, wisteria walk, tulip trees and handkerchief trees.
RARE azaleas, rhododendrons and magnolias surround the one-acre lake which was dug in order to create labour after the famine of 1845. Beyond, the stream and the garden plunge into an ice-age glen of sessile oaks and giant granite boulders. Here are rare camellias and hollies, Chilean fire-trees, ferns and bogplants, but here too unofficial fungi, wild daffodils and bluebells in season, and startling vistas of the river below.

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Opening Hours
Daily: 9am. to 7.30pm.
Telephone (059) 9159444 to check
(Subject to change. Please telephone in advance of visit)
Average length of visit: 1 - 2 hours

ADMISSION FREE
GUIDED TOUR: €2.00 per person

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