placenamesTurlough
Turlach
Glasshouse repairs and a planting experiment reveal how the gardens at Turlough Park were renewed.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Turlach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Turlough · English · main form
Place & story
Old materials in a rebuilt glasshouse
Turlough Park’s glasshouse was built in 1874–1875 and heated by a saddleback boiler. A storm destroyed it in the 1930s. Mayo County Council rebuilt it in 2000, reusing its hand-fired floor tiles and iron roof cresting. Its present form therefore combines reconstruction with surviving historic materials. [2]
A border from an 1883 plan
Head gardener Noreen Hennigan and garden consultant Belinda Jupp described their planting experiment in the Irish Garden Plant Society’s January 2004 newsletter. In 1999 they selected a border plan published in Gardening Illustrated on 8 December 1883, since they lacked evidence of what had originally grown beside the vinery. Work on the ground began in March 2000 and planting followed that November. Some unavailable varieties required substitutes, making this a researched recreation of Victorian planting rather than recovery of a documented original scheme. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Turlough. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Gardens: Turlough Park · National Museum of Ireland
- Turlough — A Victorian Experiment, Newsletter91, January2004, pages30–33 · Noreen Hennigan and Belinda Jupp, Irish Garden Plant Society
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.