Ballinacourty: The Walled Garden Under Slievenamuck
Tipperary, Ireland
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Ballinacourty: The Walled Garden Under Slievenamuck
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Ballinacourty House sits on an 18th-century estate on the Glen of Aherlow's Slievenamuck ridge, its Victorian walled garden now bordered by Coillte's Gortavoher forest trails. The Bianconi Loop traces part of the route once used by Charles Bianconi's 19th-century horse-drawn coach network through Tipperary.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Walk the Woodland Loop at Gortavoher, 1.1km and graded moderate, starting from the Christ the King car park through Aherlow Nature Park and Ballinacourty Woods
2
of 4
If fitness allows, continue onto the Bianconi Loop (4km), which follows part of the route once used by Charles Bianconi's 19th-century horse-drawn coach network
3
of 4
From the trail's high point on Slievenamuck's southern shoulder, look across the valley to the Galtee Mountains
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of 4
Finish at Ballinacourty House's Victorian walled garden, part of the 18th-century estate the camping park and forest trails are built around
Walk the Woodland Loop at Gortavoher, 1.1km and graded moderate, starting from the Christ the King car park through Aherlow Nature Park and Ballinacourty Woods
If fitness allows, continue onto the Bianconi Loop (4km), which follows part of the route once used by Charles Bianconi's 19th-century horse-drawn coach network
From the trail's high point on Slievenamuck's southern shoulder, look across the valley to the Galtee Mountains
Finish at Ballinacourty House's Victorian walled garden, part of the 18th-century estate the camping park and forest trails are built around
Before you go
The walled garden sits inside a camping park that opens from mid-March to the end of September; the forest loops are open all year.
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