Muckross Gardens
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Address Background Personnel Policies Environment Weather Collection Facilities Access Principles Location map
| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Muckross Gardens |
| Muckross, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland | |
| Tel: 353 (0)64 31440 | |
| Fax: 353 (0)64 33926 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 52° N / 52.0287170 | |
| Longitude: 9° 30' W / -9.4906683 | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | |
| Ownership: | Department of Environment and Local Government, Heritage Service |
| Garden code: | MUCK |
| Umbrella organisation: | |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| Director: | Mr Jerry Murphy |
| Parks Superintendent: | Cormac Foley |
| Contact person: | Mr Jerry Murphy |
| Total Staff: | 10 |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 0-150 m |
| Soil type: | Loam, acid |
| Aspect: | Varied |
| Total area: | 25 ha |
| Area heated: | 2 small conservatories |
| Other sites of collection: | Inside Killarney National Park |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 11 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | 13.4 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 7.6 °C |
| Absolute maximum: | 30 °C (1983) |
| Absolute minimum: | -8 °C (1973) |
| Wind | |
| Direction: | South |
| Strength: | Average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 1675 mm |
| Month of maximum: | January |
| Month of minimum: | June |
| Plant collection | |
| Number of families: | |
| Number of genera: | |
| Number of species: | |
| Number of taxa: | |
| Number of accessions: | |
| Number of plants: | |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Rhododendron, Camellia | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Special collections: (i.e. ICCP International Conifer Conservation Programme; IPGRI International Plant Genetic Resources Institute; NCCPG National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens; SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest) | |
| Special collection 1: For each collection please give Nos. of Genera, species, taxa, accessions & plants. Also any official status. | |
| Special collection 2: Please add a row for each collection. | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1960 Card index |
| Computer Program used: | |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | Yes |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | No |
| Publications: | Yes, with Muckross House |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Primary, secondary, higher, taxonomic and public education |
| Interpretation: | Ssupervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Restaurant, café, plant shop, gift shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Admission charge |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Yes Glasshouses closed Sat-Sun |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The garden exists as a historic site and for the cultivation of tender exotics in this mild oceanic climate of southwest Ireland. | |
| Location map | |
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