Glenveagh Castle Gardens

Date posted: November 1, 1999

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Last updated: 1 November 1999 - this entry is more than a year old, for details on how to update click here

Address and contact details
Name of Garden:	Glenveagh Castle Gardens
	Glenveagh National Park, Churchill, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland
	Tel: 353 (0)74 37090, (0) 74 37391
	Fax: 353 (0)74 37072
	Email:
	Web site:
	Latitude: 52° 02' 0" N
	Longitude: 07° 38' 0" W
	(mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are)
Background to the collection
Year founded:
Ownership:	Office of Public Works
Garden code:
Umbrella organisation:	Botanic Gardens Conservation International, National Heritage Programme
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.
	Sean O'Gaoithin
	Dr Ciaran O Keeffe (Regional Manager)
Contact person::
Total Staff:	6
Total Horticultural Staff:
Policies
Accessions:
Collections:
Physical environment
Altitude:	60 m
Soil type:	Peat, acid
Aspect:	North west
Total area:
Area heated:	254 m²
Other sites of collection:
Weather records	Records kept
Temperature
Average daily:	8.9 °C
Av. monthly max:	12.3 °C
Av. monthly min:	5.6 °C
Absolute maximum:	29.2 °C
Absolute minimum:	-10.0 °C
Wind
Direction:	Southwest
Strength:	Above average
Rainfall
Average annual:	1600 mm
Month of maximum:	December
Month of minimum:	February
Plant collection
Number of families:
Genera:	700
Species:	800
Taxa:	1100
Accessions:	1350
Plants:	2500
Notable plants within the collection:
Geographical area(s) of specialisation:
Special families within the collections:
	Ericaceae
Special genera within the collections:
	Rhododendron, Andromeda, Pieris, Nothofagus, Podocarpus, Geranium, Escallonia, Euphorbia, Eucryphia, Olearia
Special collections:
	Conifer, CCP – 42 Genera, 55 Species, 55 Taxa, 116 Plants. Fitzroya, Edin. Univ & CCP Pieris, Under development Andromeda, Under development
Target 8 Species:
TARGET 8 PROJECT TAXON LIST       UK Red Data List 2005 SAP lead partner WELSH Red Data List 2008 IRISH Red Data List 1987 IRISH Red Data List 2005 TARGET 8 PROJECT datasheet Garden(s) Ligusticum scoticum Scots Lovage B I RE VU Glenveagh germination trials Trollius europaeus Globeflower B W I VU EN Glenveagh germination trials
Record Keeping:	Kept since 1984 Computerised
Record System:	BG-Recorder
Are phenological records kept?
Plant-collecting trips:	International and national Nepal, China
Facilities on site
Herbarium:	No
Library:	No
Research facilities:	No
Publications:	Garden catalogue (1997), Index seminum (as part of Glasnevin's), Listed in Trees and Shrubs of Ireland
Identifications:	No
Teaching and Education:	Potential for primary, secondary, higher, taxonomic, and public education
Interpretation:	Supervised garden walks, signs, brochures, guided trails
Friends Organisation:	No
Visitor facilities:	Restaurant, café
Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc.
What are the conditions of Access to the collections?
Public access:	Admission charge
Visitors per year:	90,000
Public opening hours:	Mon-Sun: 10am-6.30pm mid-April to mid-November
Guiding principles behind the collection
	The garden exists as one of a group of National Heritage Gardens owned and run by D
Location map

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