Early Spring opening Opening Feb 13th - 28th.
Burtown House, Athy, an early Georgian villa, is surrounded by lush flower, vegetable and woodland gardens with beautiful park and farmland walks.
Opening February 13th - February 28th. Every day from 10.30am - 4.30pm. The gardens then open from April - October.
The Gallery Cafe will be serving delicious lunches every day that we are open, using fresh seasonal organic produce direct from our Kitchen Garden.
February is one of our favourite months here at Burtown. We have old and extensive well established displays of naturalised snowdrops in the garden and woodland, and all down the avenue, as well as about 60 varieties of more recently planted special snowdrops. Our aconites have, in 300 years, spread into magnificent carpets of yellow, under trees and throughout the garden.
Hellebore, iris, daphne, and a lawn planted with early bulbs of spreading cyclamen, anemones, snowdrops, narcissus, tulips, crocus etc, make Burtown well worth a visit at this time of year
History of Burtown House
Once the centre of a 2000 acre estate and built for the Quaker Robert Power about 1710; Burtown is
close to the village of Ballytore, one of Ireland’s most prominent Quaker strongholds.
Isabel Shackleton (married to the present owner's great grandfather and first cousin to the explorer
Ernest Shackleton) is responsible for some of the original layout of the garden, but over the last 20
years it has been greatly enlarged and reclaimed by the artist Lesley Fennell, her son photographer
James Fennell and the late Wendy Walsh, one of Ireland’s most celebrated botanical artists.
Bookings for garden groups and private parties are possible all year round, as well as tours of this
original historic Quaker house and its gardens.
Tel: + 353 59 8623148
M: + 353 86 2631485
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Directions
Exit M9 at junction 3, following directions to Athy, take the 2nd turn left signposted ‘Irishtown’ and
Burtown House and Gardens. Gate immediately on left.
