Powerscourt House and GardensTerraced gardens stepping down from a Palladian house towards the Sugar Loaf, with a walled garden and a pet cemetery.
Waterfall
Powerscourt Waterfall
Enniskerry, County Wicklow
Ireland's highest waterfall drops 121 metres, in parkland a few kilometres from the main estate.
- Where
- Enniskerry, County Wicklow
- Official site
- powerscourt.com
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
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Powerscourt House and GardensTerraced gardens stepping down from a Palladian house towards the Sugar Loaf, with a walled garden and a pet cemetery.
Great Sugar LoafThe quartzite cone stands over the N11. You can be up and down inside an hour from the car park.
Killruddery House and GardensThe house sits under Bray Head with seventeenth century gardens, twin canals and a hedged bowling green.
Bray to Greystones Cliff WalkSeven kilometres of path cut into the cliff around Bray Head, sea on one side and the railway line below.
Killiney HillShort climb above the coast to an obelisk, with the whole of Dublin Bay below it.More in Wicklow
GlendaloughMonastic site · LaraghGlendalough fills a glacial valley, with a round tower, a gateway and two lakes above it.- Wicklow Mountains National ParkNational park · LaraghOver 20,000 hectares of blanket bog, heath and upland woodland across the middle of the county.
Lough TayLake · RoundwoodThe lake is dark with a white sand beach at one end of it, seen from a pull in on the Sally Gap road.
Mount Usher GardensGarden · AshfordTwenty acres along the Vartry river, planted informally in the wild garden style.
Sally GapViewpoint · RoundwoodA crossroads at five hundred metres on the old Military Road, with open bog in every direction from it.
Russborough HouseHouse and gardens · BlessingtonA long Palladian house above the Blessington lakes, holding the Beit art collection.
Avondale House and Forest ParkHouse and gardens · RathdrumCharles Stewart Parnell's home, in five hundred acres of forest with a treetop walk and a slide in the grounds.
Wicklow GaolMuseum · Wicklow townThe eighteenth century county gaol on the hill above the town is open as a museum.