The Garden of Europe


This is really a secret garden, because of its secluded location, adjacent to Childers Park, on ground originally used as a landfill site. This project was the brainchild of the local Rotary Club and was officially opened in 1995, to coincide with European commemorations of the ending of World War II. A monument to the memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust, constructed from railway sleepers and chains, is located among gardens with thousands of shrubs and trees from the various countries of Europe. A bay tree from the garden of the late Bryan MacMahon and his wife, Kitty, nestles among oaks and fuschias on one of the paths leading up to the garden.

Statues of Schiller and Patrick Tarrant's monument to John B. Keane are also to be enjoyed in the garden.

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