wildlife parks around blackwater valley mallow

Fine Entrance gates at the porticoed gated lodge on the Turnpike Road, north of Doneraile town, Co. Cork, mark the formal entrance to a great landscaped estate - 160 hectares of parklands with mature groves of deciduous trees and a number of deer herds. The greater part of the work at Doneraile was undertaken in the early eighteenth century.

The fashion in landscape gardening at this period was exemplified, if not largely formed, by the acievements of the English landscape architect,...