CREAGH
County Cork

A delightfully romantic garden set in the grounds of a pleasant Regency house overlooking a sea estuary. Developed by the late Peter and Gwendoline Harold-Barry from 1945, the garden contains an extensive network of paths, meandering their way through the woodlands, across glades and along the strand, enabling the visitor to view a wide range of tender plants, notably camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons, fuchsias, magnolias, telopeas and abutilons. An ornamental serpentine pond, fringed with gunnera, hydrangea and cordyline, evokes scenes reminiscent of a Henri Rousseau landscape and nearby, the Gothick windows of a ruined gazebo peer out through the undergrowth. Elsewhere, there is a charming thatched summer house, a long herbaceous border and an old walled garden with vegetables, fruit, newly built greenhouses and exotic varieties of fowl.

Located 3 1/2 miles south of Skibbereen on the Baltimore Road.
NGR: W 077312
Open all year

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