Russborough - Parkland Loop walk
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.33 mi
- Elevation gain
- 164 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 164 ft
- Max elevation
- 886 ft
- TrailRank
- 19
- Min elevation
- 684 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 2 hours 5 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2009
- Uploaded
- October 16, 2022
- Recorded
- October 2022
near Bishopslane, Leinster (Ireland)
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Itinerary description
Following original pathways from the eighteenth century, walks to the south and north of the park reveal wonderful views of the house, as well as enabling a full immersion in one of Ireland’s most important and intact designed landscapes. This mixture of cultural and natural heritage plays as important a role in the effect created for our visitors today as it did in the mid-1700s.
This 4.4 kilometre walk combines the north and south trails of the Lake and Woodland Walks to form a continuous loop of the Russborough Demesne. A path through the tree nursery from the rhododendron garden takes you across the top of the north lawns revealing spectacular views through the eighteenth century plantings of noble oak and beech.
Follow the path as it heads down the hill, exiting near the Birds of Prey centre. A short detour will take you to the tombs of the 6th Earl and Countess of Milltown. Set side by side in a railed enclosure, it pays tribute to their efforts ‘beautifying Russborough, which became the most lovely spot in the world, Milltown’s Paradise’.
This 4.4 kilometre walk combines the north and south trails of the Lake and Woodland Walks to form a continuous loop of the Russborough Demesne. A path through the tree nursery from the rhododendron garden takes you across the top of the north lawns revealing spectacular views through the eighteenth century plantings of noble oak and beech.
Follow the path as it heads down the hill, exiting near the Birds of Prey centre. A short detour will take you to the tombs of the 6th Earl and Countess of Milltown. Set side by side in a railed enclosure, it pays tribute to their efforts ‘beautifying Russborough, which became the most lovely spot in the world, Milltown’s Paradise’.
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