Great place for a picnic and a great place to walk around. The riverwalk is very enjoyable and the 100 steps will get your heart beating!! Beautiful gardens and a little coffee shop.

Exceptional!! These gardens are well worth your time to visit.Free entry--just 2E for the car pasrk,stay as long as you like!! Truly beautiful gardens,lake,arboreteum,plant sales and coffee shop. You should factor in at least 3 to 4 hours for this visit. They are in the...More

I’d never heard of these gardens before last week - glad we found out about them as they are fantastic. It’s an opw site and you have to pay €2 parking but to go into the gardens is free. The walks around the gardens are...More

Altamont Gardens are set in the rolling fertile countryside of Co. Carlow which does not attract tourists in the numbers that head for Ireland’s Atlantic seaboard. As a result these beautiful gardens dating back over two hundred years are not overrun by visitors. The government...More

I visit this garden all year round and it is one if my favourite places. It's particularly beautiful in the mornings when there aren't too many visitors about. I've brought friends there over the years and they all loved it. It's free to enter. Prepare...More

Lovely afternoon spent here, easy to get to, and only €2 parking. We had a lovely picnic and a refreshing stroll afterwards

The girls in the coffee shop were extremely friendly and welcoming and there was a great selection of homemade goods to choose from!