Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - ornamental canal
Kilruddery Demesne West, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilruddery Demesne West
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.18059, -6.10135
- SMR number
- WI008-006003-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
To the south of Kilruddery house (WI008-006001-) is a 'Late C17 and early C18 formal garden (WI008-006002-) on a grand scale, one of the very few surviving layouts of this kind in Ireland. Long double canal (WI008-006003-); alleys with hedges; miniature amphitheatre of grass banks.' (Bence-Jones 1978, 171)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 01 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - formal gardenunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.