Ballykilcavan

Ballykilcavan is a charming house of c. 1680 near Stradbally in County Laois, in heavily wooded parkland near the road to Athy in County Kildare. Reworked several times over the centuries the house retains its late seventeenth century appearance and is still occupied by the descendants of its original owners who came here early in that century. The mid-nineteenth century owner, Sir Hunt Johnson-Walsh employed William Robinson, "a promising local man'" who subsequently became the doyen of Victorian garden designers, influencing a whole school of gardeners by his naturalistic ‘Robinsonian’ plantings.

Address & Contact

Ballykilcavan, Stradbally, Laois

t: +353 57 8625143

e: dwalshkemmis@yahoo.ie

w: www.ballykilcavan.net