{"id":424,"date":"2010-10-24T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engagingireland.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2010-10-24T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T20:20:40","slug":"ep-24-the-top-10-gardens-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/24\/ep-24-the-top-10-gardens-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 24 – The Top 10 Gardens in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Powerscourt House and Gardens<\/p><\/div>\n

Ireland boasts many beautiful and interesting gardens. In this episode, we highlight a few of our favorites. It\u2019s difficult to narrow down our list to just ten, but we have made our choices. If you have a favorite garden, please feel free to send a comment telling us about your favorite garden and why it is special to you.<\/p>\n

Remember, the list is no particular order!<\/p>\n

1. Bantry House and Gardens, Bantry, County Cork<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bantryhouse.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Birr Castle Demesne; Birr, County Offaly<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.birrcastle.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Powerscourt, County Wicklow<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.powerscourt.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(Featured in Episode #8)<\/p>\n

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4. Blarney Castle Gardens, Blarney, County Cork<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.blarneycastle.ie\/pages\/gardens<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Lismore Castle and Gardens, Lismore, County Waterford<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.powerscourt.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(Featured in Episode #10)<\/p>\n

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Birr Castle and Gardens<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

6. Mount Stewart House and Gardens, Newtonards, County Down<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/main\/w-vh\/w-visits\/w-findaplace\/w-mountstewart\/<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Rowallane, Saintfield, County Down<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/main\/w-rowallanegarden<\/a><\/p>\n

8. Garinish Island, Glengariff Harbour, Bantry Bay, County Cork<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.heritageireland.ie\/en\/south-west\/ilnacullin-garinishisland\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Boats to Garinish Island:<\/em><\/p>\n

Blue Pool Ferry http:\/\/www.bluepoolferry.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Harbour Queen Ferry http:\/\/www.harbourqueenferry.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Ellen\u2019s Rock Boat Service\u00a0is a licensed boat service running trips to Garinish Island<\/a> from a small pier at Ellen\u2019s Rock about a mile outside the village on the Castletownbere Road.<\/p>\n

(Please note that we are simply listing the options available to the traveler to get out to Garinish. We are not endorsing any particular operator\u2026)<\/p>\n

9. Lisselan Estate and Gardens, Clonakilty, West Cork<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lisselan.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

10. Muckross House, Gardens and Traditional Farms<\/strong>, Killarney National Park, County Kerry<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.muckross-house.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Powerscourt Japanese Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/engagingireland\/EI_24_10242010.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

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Ireland boasts many beautiful and interesting gardens. In this episode, we highlight a few of our favorites. It\u2019s difficult to narrow down our list to just ten, but we have made our choices. If you have a favorite garden, please feel free to send a comment telling us about your favorite garden and why it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,18,19,49,50,64,67,68,81,82,96,98,111,116,140,144],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-bantry-house","tag-birr-castle-demesne","tag-blarney-castle","tag-gardens","tag-garinish-island","tag-ilnacullin","tag-ireland","tag-irish","tag-lismore-castle","tag-lisselan-gardens","tag-mount-stewart-house","tag-muckross-house-and-garden","tag-powerscourt","tag-rowallane","tag-top-ten","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engagingireland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}