Annes Grove Gardens

Annes Grove is an historic estate located near Castletownroche Co. Cork. It was the home of the Annesley family from the 1600s until 2015 when it was gifted to the Irish state and entered the care of the Office of Public Works. The Office of Public Works has carried out extensive works to the house, outbuildings and gardens and the site has been opened to the public since 2022. Richard Arthur Grove Annesley, inherited Annes Grove in 1892 and developed the landscape in the Robinsonian style in the early 1900s. He supported the plant-hunting expeditions led by Frank Kingdon-Ward to Tibet, Yunnan Province, Burma and Bhutan and assembled an exotic collection of plants. Some of the spectacular flowering shrubs dating from this period include Cornus kousa, embothrium, eucryphia and hoheria.