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What is recorded here

The ordinary view hides the useful part of the story. Formal garden, c.1845, with series of terraces having cut-limestone steps, decorative terracotta planting urns and flower bed to centre on a circular plan with cut-stone fountain.

Formal garden, c.1845, with series of terraces having cut-limestone steps, decorative terracotta planting urns and flower bed to centre on a circular plan with cut-stone fountain.

This garden is an attractive feature of the Mooreabbey estate, positioned to the east front of the house, and is of interest for its landscape design qualities – the formal planning of the garden is typical of the mid nineteenth-century taste for ordered landscapes. The cut-stone work to the terraces, including steps with retaining/parapet walls, is a good example of the high quality of stone masonry practised in the locality, while the early terracotta planting urns are attractive features of the design.

The story behind this place

Formal garden, c.1845, with series of terraces having cut-limestone steps, decorative terracotta planting urns and flower bed to centre on a circular plan with cut-stone fountain.

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