Heywood's garden of earthly delights

Heywood is one of four gardens in Ireland created by the legendary partnership of Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.

Heywood is one of four gardens in Ireland created by the legendary partnership of Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.

Built for Colonel Hutchinson Poe between 1909 and 1912, it occupies a magnificent site overlooking the rolling hills of north Kilkenny, and was designed as a series of rooms linked by terraces and stepped passageways punctuated by columns and architectural artefacts.

Photographs taken for Country Life magazine in 1917 depict an ivy-clad mansion ...