Walled garden, Portumna Demesne, Co. Galway
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Walled gardens were the engine rooms of great estates, producing fruit, vegetables, and cut flowers across carefully managed acres enclosed by high masonry walls that trapped heat and kept out grazing animals.
The example within Portumna Demesne in County Galway represents this tradition, a formal enclosure that once served the needs of the household at Portumna Castle, one of the most significant early seventeenth-century fortified houses in Ireland.
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Portumna Demesne, Co. Galway
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