The Irish National Stud Japanese Gardens
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ins tourism brochure 07:ins tourism brochure 22/05/2007 22:11 Page 1 Go to Irish National Stud Irish National Stud How to find us Home to some of Ireland’s finest thoroughbreds The Black Abbey which lies in ruins since its storming Just 30 miles from Dublin, Kildare town is easily accessible The Irish National Stud The farm at Tully, Kildare, which today is the home of the during the reformation in the 16th century, is carefully by road (just off M/N7), by rail (to Kildare train station) Irish National Stud, was purchased in 1900 from a local preserved on its own grounds and by bus (on the main bus route to Kildare town). The Japanese Gardens farmer James Fay by Colonel William Hall-Walker, a on the Tully farm. There are Irish National Stud and Gardens are situated less than one member of a rumours of underground mile outside the town. passages connecting the Black Saint Fiachra’s Garden wealthy Scottish Courtesy Bus: The Kildare Village shopping outlet operate Abbey to the other monastic brewery family. a Courtesy Bus from Kildare rail station to Kildare town, sites of the White Abbey and Irish Horse Museum He decided, the Viillage outlet and the Irish National Stud - please the Grey Abbey in Kildare One admission charge covers all four much against the telephone or email for times. wishes of his town. father, to breed N3 The Stallion paddocks run the length of the Oak Walk, Kinnegad M1 DUBLIN thoroughbred whilst the mares’ and foals’ paddocks are to be found N4 Enfield AIRPORT Kilcock horses at Tully. Eglinton along the Tully Walk. Maynooth Leixlip M4 Hall-Walker’s Edenderry Celbridge M50 DUBLINBELFAST Dún Laoghaire views on breeding have been described as inspired, SligoN82 N7 Facilities include N81 Irish National Stud N11 preposterous and eccentric. Japanese Gardens Kill ◆ Daily guided tours of the stud St. Fiachra's Garden M11 Rathangan M7 Naas Bray DUBLIN ◆ Galway Enniskerry In 1945 the Irish National Stud Co. Ltd., was formed and World famous Japanese Gardens KILDARE Newbridge N7 ◆ M9 N81 it officially took over the running of the Stud on 31st of Gift Shop with many items of clothing, SHANNON Kilcullen s Portlaoise Monasterevan The Curragh International Airport Limerick n Kildare suitable gifts for all occasions i August 1946. Since then it has continued to expand and Nurney Domestic Airport a t ROSSLARE Ferry Port n Waterford & Irish National Stud branded goods u N11 Farranfore o develop and is now a source of national pride and an CORK ◆ international tourist attraction. Free Car and Coach Park ◆ Home cooking in the Restaurant Its primary aim was ◆ Picnic area KILDARE INTERCHANGE to promote the Monasterevin ◆ 4 acres of woodland walks (Exit 13) interest of the NURNEY R415 ◆ Ideal venue for wedding photographs Newtown bloodstock industry Cross M7 in Ireland by Minoru Yard traffic lights providing the TULLY ROAD + Church services of the high Business and KILDARE Horsebox class stallions on the Entrance only TOWN SQUARE farm. The stud Tourism Entrance and Car Park consists of 958 acres Silken Blandford Yard Curragh MAIN STREET of land and there Lodge Thomas are 288 boxes on Irish Hotel National the farm for mares, Stud Dublin foals and stallions. Maddenstown Dublin Yard M7 ins tourism brochure 07:ins tourism brochure 22/05/2007 22:11 Page 2 Japanese Gardens Saint Fiachra’s Garden the vision of St. Fiachra himself. He is depicted as the spiritual hermit reaching skyward as if linking heaven and Woodland and lakeside walks One of the gems of The world famous Japanese Gardens at Tully were created earth. In his hand is a seed, the kernel of nature and between the years 1906 and 1910. Devised by Colonel In 1999 the Irish National Stud created a commemorative creation. Ireland's heritage William Hall-Walker, who later garden to St Fiachra, Patron Saint of Gardeners, to The philosophical concept of the garden is not to create a became known as Lord Wavertree, celebrate the Millennium. It was designed by Professor conventional garden of any style which could be found the gardens were laid out in their Martin Hallinan, award winning landscape architect. paths of beauty by the Japanese anywhere in the world, or one which represents any gardener Tassa Eida and his son particular style of garden or type of planting, but rather Minoru. The gardens are situated in searches for the basis of St. Fiachra’s love for nature and the grounds of the Irish National the soil. The garden seeks to present to the visitor the Stud, and have been carefully landscape which inspired the spirituality of the 6th and preserved as one of the gems of 7th centuries monastic movement in Ireland. The Ireland’s heritage. woodland walks and aquatic plants as seen within a natural setting, and creating in effect a national The significance of the Japanese Gardens is not only watergarden served by the natural springs of the Curragh. artistic and horticultural but also philosophical, religious and historical. The symbolism of Life that the Garden portrays, traces the journey of a soul from Oblivion to Irish Horse Museum Eternity. The landscapes are now of international renown The entrance to the garden is via an underground stone The ‘Sport of Kings’ comes to life and are acclaimed as the finest Japanese Gardens in passage, taking the visitor beneath the earth into the When you step Europe. inner garden, another world of woodland and lakes, into this ultra momentarily leaving behind the pastures and horses of Some rare plants growing in modern exhibition the Stud Farm. the Japanese Gardens area it's hard to Sophora japonica The centre of the garden is dominated by a peninsula of believe that the ‘Japanese Pagoda Tree’(228) fissured limestone surrounded by water upon which a building was once an ornamental medium sized stone hermitage has been created. Within this hermitage the home of a tree native to China and is found a second garden, deeper and finer, but still of groom and was planted widely in Japan. rock. This inner subterranean later converted to stallion boxes to Opening hours Cupressus funebris garden is of handcrafted Waterford Crystal rocks and house such famous First week-end in February - 31st October, 9. 30 a.m. - 6 p.m. ‘Mourning Cypress’ (473) plants such as ferns and horses as Tulyar 1st November - 22nd December, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. an elegant small conifer Last admission 1 hour before closing (in both cases) orchids, which lights the and Royal Charger. native to China. There are darkness of the hermit’s The exhibition tells Tully, Kildare, Ireland. only a handful of these trees cavern. the story of man in Irish gardens. Exit 13 off the M7 onto the R415 and horse uniting tel: +353 (0)45 521617 / 522963 Tetradium daniellii (307) Seated on a rock peninsula, for sporting competition. More specifically, the story is of fax: +353 (0)45 522964 beside the monastic cells, the e-mail: [email protected] a deciduous small tree native Ireland's long love affair with horse racing, and horse website: www.irish-national-stud.ie to China and Korea. garden reaches its nucleus in racing's love affair with Ireland. himself.