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Tullynally Castle

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Tullynally Castle
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Walled garden associated with Tullynally Castle, built c.1820. Built on trapezoidal plan, tapering to the north. Southern half in use as a kitchen garden and northern half in use as an orchard. Constructed of limestone rubble, northern half is brick-lined to the interior. Central range of single-storey sheds and outbuildings having glass houses to the south (15400323). Central walkway running east to west is lined by Irish yews. Carriage-arch with timber double doors to the west having a two-bay two-storey former gardener's house built into the wall adjacent to the north. Pointed-arched former pedestrian entrance to the northeast. Located to the west of Tullynally Castle with flower garden adjacent to the east.
An extensive walled garden associated with Tullynally Castle (15400321), which contributes positively to the group values and the setting within this important demesne. This is complex is one of the largest of its kind in Ireland and was described in 1835 by the owner at the time as being 'impossibly large for these times'. This complex acts as an interesting historical reminder of the extensive organisation and the high level of resources needed to maintain a large country demesne in Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The survival of an early avenue of Irish yew trees is of botanical interest.

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