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  2. Kilgraney House and Herb Gardens

Kilgraney House and Herb Gardens

Kilgraney House and Herb Gardens
Kilgraney, Co. Carlow, Co. Carlow
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059 977 5283
www.kilgraneyhouse.com

Kilgraney takes its name from the Irish ‘cill gréine’ which means ‘sunny hill’ or ‘sunny wood’. These wooded and secluded grounds overlook the tranquil Barrow valley and are situated halfway between Carlow town and Kilkenny City. The Herb Gardens at Kilgraney House consist of a series of interconnecting herbal gardens there is a large kitchen garden, a tea walk, a medicinal herb courtyard, a medieval monastic herb garden and a garden of aromatic and fragrant herbs. The enclosed kitchen garden supplies the guesthouse with fruit, vegetables and herbs and has been run on organic lines for almost ten years. It consists of gravel paths and eleven raised timber beds of varying sizes grouped to form a modern rectangular ‘potager’.

Here you will find unusual leafy plants such as mibuna, mizuna and komatsuna amongst more traditional salad varieties. Next to the kitchen garden is the tea walk, a short gravel path lined on one side with plants suitable for infusions and herbal teas. The medicinal garden, set in a granite courtyard, consists of nine raised beds in Irish oak timber. Each bed is planted with herbs suitable for treating a particular part of the body. In a lower courtyard you will find an aromatic garden planted with herbs for fragrance and also for their usefulness in cosmetic preparations. In an adjoining courtyard there is a modern interpretation of a medieval monastic herb garden with four oak raised beds surrounded on two sides by an oak timber cloister. A circular cosmic garden helps to explain and facilitate our understanding of the ancient belief that there is a connection between people, plants, planets and constellations. There is a recently planted native tree garden based on Bretha Comaithchesa – an eight-century Irish law where trees were classified into four hierarchical categories with a series of laws governing their use.

“Herbs are big here; in fact, Kilgraney does wonders for one’s karma.” – Room for Romance, the ultimate guide to romantic hotels.

Kilgraney House is a member of Ireland’s Blue Book.

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