Parks & Gardens
Take a break from your frenzied and typical routine and give a break to your mind and body. To sooth your eyes, do visit lush green parks and gardens around you.
Our section gives you up date information about the best parks and green places to enjoy with family and friends and to bright your day.
There are so many other activities and attractions for enthusiast or even ordinary visitor alike. Check out our section to make your day bright green with your loved ones.
Ballyhoura Mountain Park
County: Clare
This is a natural park of woodland, rugged mountain, grouse moor and peat bog, which covers an area of approx. 10,000 hectares. With its abundance of beautiful trees and plants, it is an ideal venue for nature trails and birdwatching. Thanks to its marked walking routes, visitors can fully enjoy its peace and beauty at leisure, or at a more lively pace along the fitness and orienteering trails. more... 
Carysfort Lodge
County: Dublin
Carysoft Lodge is basically an old fashioned, yet very attractive and worth watching home of Siobhan Dillon. This place is full of colourful and gaudy flowers and plants. Entering in the garden gives a soothing and fresh feeling to a visitor. And visit to such an amazing garden, full of variety of plants is undoubtedly a great experience more... 
Earlscliffe Garden Baily
County: Dublin
From the superb view southwards across Dublin Bay to the Wicklow Mountains and eastwards along the coastline to the Baily lighthouse, the most notable feature about the garden is the large collection of tender plants that flourish here at 53.3 ° N. This is not only the result of skilled plantsmanship but is due to the unusually favourable microclimate. more... 
Knockcree
County: Dublin
A well maintained, man made beautiful garden which is being developed on the hill foot of Dublin Mountain. The speciality of this garden is that it is not only full of beautiful and colourful flowers but also full of herbs and green shrubs, which doubles the soothing effect of the garden. more... 
Marlay Park
County: Dublin
Marlay Park was once a private estate, but it is now a public park with terrific family amenities including play areas, a golf course, miniature railway, lakes, woods and parkland. The stables beside the estate mansion are now home to thriving crafts studios and shops. Marlay Park is also the starting point of the Wicklow Way, a long-distance walk that winds its way through the Wicklow Mountains, and on to Co Kilkenny where it ends in the town of Graiguenamanagh more... 
National Botanic Gardens
County: Dublin
The Gardens, 19.5 hectares on the south bank of the Tolka, contain many attractive features including an arboretum, rock garden and Burren area, large pond, extensive herbaceous borders, student garden and annual display of decorative plants including a rare example of Victorian carpet bedding. more... 
Phoenix Park Dublin
County: Dublin
Phoenix Park, public park in Dublin, Ireland. Situated to the west of the city centre, it is one of the world's largest city parks, extending across 712 hectares (1,752 acres), with land devoted to landscaped park, lakes, a public zoo, football pitches, monuments, and public buildings having a walled circumference of 11 km.
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Powerstown Park
County: Clare
For more than 150 years Clonmel Racecourse has been a popular venue for horse racing The racecourse is a right handed track of one and a quarter miles. Clonmel racecourse (Powerstown Park) is located in a picturesque setting north of the town. more... Primrose Hill
County: Dublin
It is one of the largest plants man's gardens in Ireland. It has been built up over the last 40 years and surrounds a period house. The house and grounds were part of the Lucan House Demesne. The garden has been created over the last forty years by Cicely and Robin Hall and is more of a botanical garden with a strong sense of design and subtle colour schemes more... 
Rathmichael Lodge
County: Dublin
A beautiful garden with the sights and scents of an old-fashioned cottage garden flowering at full tilt. All around are fragrant roses clambering up walls, over pergolas, and into trees; flower-lined paths await exploration. more... 
