Shankill Castle, County Kilkenny
Shankill Castle is a country house in the middle of a park near Paulstown village in County Kilkenny, Ireland . It's on the border with County Carlow . Visitors can tour the house and wander through its gardens.
history
Shankill Castle's origins lie in a tower house next to the ruins of an old church. In 1708 Peter Aylward bought the land from his wife's family, the Butlers . He had the house rebuilt in a formal garden, with a wide view of the landscape at the front and a canal at the back. In the 19th century the building was enlarged and given battlements ; the canal was given meanders and an unusual polyhedral sundial was laid out on a deep lawn . Furthermore, were a Gothic hall with the crest added to the Aylward and a greenhouse. The stables and the crenellated entrance to the property are attributed to Daniel Robertson . The house has largely retained its 18th century character; there is a Georgian staircase , Gothic stucco and a Victorian drawing room .
A branch of the Butler family , the Toler-Aylwards , lived at Shankill Castle until 1991, and some of them still reside in County Kilkenny. The artist Elizabeth Cope now lives in the country house .
Gardens
In the garden there are remains of the lime tree avenues from the 18th century and the laurel lawn from the 19th century. You can find some favorites from the Victorian era, such as B. the gigantic sequoia trees and wild ash trees from the 20th century. The garden, surrounded by a moat, was once a rose garden; then it was neglected and planted with Sitka spruce . Today it is a spring garden. It blooms in the cemetery all year round. The enclosed garden has an arch of apple trees under which red tulips are planted. Some goblet-shaped, old pear trees grow on a trellis on a brittle brick wall .
There are three special trees in the garden of Shankill Castle, listed in the Tree Register of Ireland maintained by the Tree Council of Ireland : a Dutch linden , a giant sequoia and a Monterey cypress .
Individual evidence
- ^ Register of Ireland . Archived from the original on May 24, 2010. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- ↑ Tree Council of Ireland website . Retrieved November 19, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 41 ′ 11.4 " N , 7 ° 1 ′ 18.1" W.