Glenveagh
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Glenveagh Gardens — covering 11 hectares of hillside above Glenveagh Castle on the shore of Lough Veagh, some 13 km from Churchill in County Donegal, Ireland — form the heart of the Glenveagh National Park. The network of mainly informal gardens boasts a multitude of exotic and delicate plants from as far afield as Chile, Madeira and Tasmania, all sheltered by windbreaks of pine trees and ornamental rhododendrons.
The gardens and castle were presented to the Irish nation in 1981 by Henry McIlhenny of Philadelphia who had purchased the estate in 1937.
External link
- Glenveagh Gardens guide (http://www.gardens-guide.com/fr_blank.htm?http://www.gardens-guide.com/gardenpages/_0229.htm)