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…

This is Donegal’s tropical garden, inspirational and boldly experimental! This garden also specialises in plants tolerant of seaside conditions. ‘Cluain na dTor’ meaning “meadow of the shrubs” - an apt place-name - shrubs as shelter and as ornamentals populate this garden with surrounding natural wildflower meadows. Twenty years in the making, a wonderfully eclectic mix of individual specimens ar…

Oakfield Park is a 100 acre garden, that includes an award winning walled garden, ponds, a lakeside Nymphaeum, a hedge maze and many garden sculptures. Our crowning glory is a 4.5km narrow guage railway with diesel and steam trains operating daily rounds of the woodlands, flower meadows, willow tunnels and lakeside castle. There is so much to see and do, rambling the woodland walks, refreshments s…

A secluded and peaceful garden of many parts. Visitors enjoy a warm welcome from the owner and new additions surprise the regular visitor. This is a plant-lovers paradise where modern varieties of shrubs and herbaceous plants rub shoulders with old favourites and where the non-gardener may sit and be charmed by the views across Donegal Bay. Admission: €5 to Fields of Life well-drilling proje…

Swan Park is a unique and invaluable amenity. Personified by its mature tree population, the Park itself is a narrow linear park extending east-west along the Crana River (An Chrannach) flowing into Lough Swilly through Castle Bridge at the river mouth, hence the towns name Bun Crannchcha, meaning ‘foot of the river Cranca’. Donegal County Councils’s Swan Park Regeneration Project has seen an e…