Heywood Gardens
Ballinakill, Co. Laois By Damian Murphy The origins of Heywood Gardens date back to the late eighteenth century when Michael Frederick Trench (1746–1836), having designed and built a neo-Classical villa (1789), with a guiding hand from James Gandon (1743–1823), set about reshaping the surrounding 250-acre estate as an ideal landscape. It was achieved by digging … Read more