Parks & Gardens in Donegal

A gem of a rose garden on a modern housing development. Featuring a huge range of varieties (Climbers, Hybrid Tea and Floribunda) in every colour and with fragrances that will knock your socks off. Admission: €5 to charity and garden maintenance Directions: From N15 in the centre of Ballybofey turn on to R252 (Glenfin Road) passing Jackson’s Hotel on the right. Blue Cedars is on the left a…

Salthill is well illustrated in “The Irish Garden” (2015) by Jane Powers with photographs by Jonathon Hession. She aptly describes the space “The 0.5 hectare enclosure has that delightful feeling of privacy and mystery that is particular to old walled gardens”. So, come and witness the “great gatherings of herbaceous plants amid mature shrubs and noteworthy trees”. Admission: €5 Adults, €2 …

On the slopes of Bloody Foreland, on the northwest Donegal Wild Atlantic Way, Anamcara Healing Herbs Garden is the creation of medical herbalist Columbia Hillen. Visiting this garden is like uncovering secret treasures hidden in plain sight - wild herbs growing naturally in the area along with others Columbia has planted, which have been used for centuries for medicine. Come and learn about their …

The Celtic Prayer Garden is Ireland’s only such garden and is set in six acres of natural bog land, approximately 10 minutes out of the city centre of Derry. Here we invite you to step back in time to an Ireland of saints and scholars, a people who had a very strong sense of creation, a robust attitude to religious practice and who believed in a close relationship with nature. Walk back in t…

Shy By Nature Farm is a certified organic market garden in Inver, set on a hillside overlooking Donegal Bay and the Bluestack Mountains. Rooted in community, we grow seasonal vegetables in harmony with nature using regenerative methods, supplying organic veg boxes across Donegal and working with local restaurants, cafés and shops. Shy By Nature is delighted to be joining the Donegal Garden Trai…