heywood

The garden is reached at the end of a long avenue that winds through an elegant landscape park laid out during the 1770s in the romantic-poetic tradition.

visitors enter the garden through a series of small compartments or 'garden rooms' planted with herbaceous plants and delimited by clipped yew hedges. From here a curving staircase leads down into a large elliptical garden where three terraced borders drop to a central oval pond encircling a large stone fountain.

Located 3 miles from Abbeyleix, just outside Ballinakill NGR: S 472817.