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KILLRUDDERY HOUSE & GARDENS

Killruddery House & Gardens
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Tel: +353 (0) 404 46024
www.killruddery.com

Home to the Brabazon Family (the Earls of Meath) since 1618 Killruddery House is the most successful Elizabethan-Revival mansion in Ireland and also one of the earliest. In the 1820s the 10th Earl engaged the fashionable architects of the day - Richard Morrison and his son William - to remodel Killruddery. In the 1950s the house was greatly reduced to its present day proportions, but much of the Morrison's design and architecture still remain.
Killruddery is unique in having one of the most extensive early formal gardens, still in their original style, surviving in Ireland, largely laid out in the 17th century and added to in the 19th century. The gardens at Killruddery are the oldest in Ireland. They are amongst the most important gardens of their type in these islands.

The Orangery was designed and built by William Burn in 1852 after the fashion of the Crystal Palace in London. The original glass dome was the work of Richard Turner who designed the curvilinear range at the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin and at Kew Gardens in London.

The House is open every afternoon in May, June and September from 1pm to 4.30pm (last tour).
Special tours outside the advertised public times can be arranged for groups of 20 or more

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