@revenant Lismore Castle was owned in turn by Sir Walter Raleigh and Richard Boyle, before passing to the Fourth Duke of Devonshire in 1753.
The gardens are said to be the oldest continually cultivated gardens in Ireland and they offer spectacular views of both Lismore Castle and the surrounding countryside of the Blackwater valley.
Visitors are invited to wander in the historic gardens which contain a fine collection of magnolias, camellias, rhododendrons, and herbaceous borders, arranged over seven acres within the 17th century outer defensive castle walls.
Although the planting has changed to fit the tastes of subsequent owners the walls and terraces of the Upper Garden remain as they were when commissioned by Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork in around 1605.
@revenant Not really It was just Lismore castle, When I first came to Lismore I became friends with an elderly man and he told me that the dukes family was good to the locals during the famine and that got me interested in it
@antonioioio oh you took a pic of the plaque ? eheh. That man must have been very elderly indeed :). I guess it was the local population who built that castle.
@revenant only took a picture of the castle The elderly man would be about 100 if he was still alive The things that happened here were passed down from generation to generation and what my friend told must be true because the castle wasn't touched during the war of Independance I don't where the labor came from to build it but certainly was a lot of stone masons used
