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Walled garden, dating to the c.1620s, sited within Birr Castle demesne. High random coursed stone walls surround garden with a glasshouse complex, potting sheds with random coursed stone walls and pitched slate roofs, corrugated-iron storage sheds abutting western wall. Two urns located in centre of the garden's cloistered upper terrace, with various stone statues aligned against garden wall. Oak benches at either end of the top terrace, with a water feature between the box hedges which are over 300 years old and form part of the early garden layout. The water feature was designed by the present Earl in the shape of the Celtic cross to mark the advent of the new millennium, after which the walled gardens have now been renamed.
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