Beaulieu House & Gardens
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Overview
Beaulieu House and the gardens overlook the River Boyne and are just a mile from the Irish Sea. The estate has been home to the Plunkett and Tichbourne families for over 800 years. The house, built by Sir Henry Tichbourne in the mid-1660s, was one of the first unfortified manor houses to be built in Ireland and today, the eleventh generation of the family lives there. There are four acres of walled gardens and terraces to explore from June to September – here there are unusual plants such as crinum lilies, perovskia, sea lavender, herbaceous clematis and melianthus, a Victorian knot garden, a central golden border and a rockery by the gardener’s cottage. There is also an 18th-century hexagonal conservatory housing tender pelargoniums and abutilons.
About the area
County Louth is the smallest county in Ireland, but includes two of the region’s major towns, Drogheda and Dundalk. Inland it has a gentle landscape of hills and lakes, which grows more dramatic towards the east where the Mountains of Mourne loom across Carlingford Lough.
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