May 27th we left Wicklow heading for County Tipperary. First stop - Altamont Gardens in County Carlow on the banks of the River Slaney. http://www.angelfire.com/on/altamont/information.htm

Altamont is another Robinsonian style, natural garden. Areas of lawn, wooded walks, a lovely lake with a little island that was occupied by a pair of swans nesting, surrounded by farmland...its a bucolic paradise!

Our next destination was another garden, near Abbeyleix in Ballinakill, County Laois. This garden was a bit of a surprise in that ... (more)