Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - formal garden
Castleforbes Demesne, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleforbes Demesne
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF008-012008-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with the 17th-century house (LF008-012----) at Castle Forbes that was subsequently incorporated into the present 18th/19th-century house. Described in 1682 by Nicholas Dowdall as ‘Lovely Gardens of Pleasure inclosed by high stone Walls against which great plenty of Fruit of all sorts grows, and in the said gardens are all kinds of Flowers and Flower Trees that grow in this Kingdome, as the Lelpas Liburnum and many more, with Philarea Hedges, Lawrel, &c, and the Tubirose beareth here which is not to be raised but with ye assistance of Glasses' (Gillespie and Moran 1991, 2008). The precise location the garden has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 February 2013