Insight Guides: Pocket Dublin by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Ireland
Publisher: APA
Published: 2016-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Irish National Stud and Japanese Gardens

Horses are immensely popular in Ireland, and County Kildare can claim to be at the heart of horse country. The Curragh and Punchestown racecourses are situated here, and the Irish National Stud • [map] at Tully (www.irishnationalstud.ie; mid-Feb–Dec daily 9.30am–5pm; combined ticket covers Irish Stud, Irish Horse Museum, Japanese Gardens and St Fiachras Garden). Home to breeding stallions, the national stud has produced some of the most successful horses in the country. Visitors see horses being trained and exercised. There is also a museum illustrating the history of the horse in Ireland, which features the skeleton of the racehorse Arkle.

Adjacent to the stud are the Japanese Gardens, created by the stud’s founder in the early part of the century, and well worth a visit, and the St Fiachras Garden, created to celebrate the millennium.

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