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CA THAL CRIMMINS AR CHITECT                     22                                        Conservation Appraisal of Walled Garden and Historic landscape of Kylemore Abbey                          www. architect.crimmins.ie


















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                                                                                                                                                             The Nectarine House



                                                                                                                                                             The beds are bisected by a central walk. Some original cast iron pipes in evidence.






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                                                                                                                          Jupp and Mc Erlan’s report notes.
                                                                                                                          THE NECTARINE HOUSE
                                                                                                                          `Span-Roofed Nectarine House, about
                                                                                                                          26ft long and plated with thriving trees’.
                                                                                                                          This house is densely overgrown and
                                                                                                                          was not cleared. It is of the same
                                                                                                                          external dimensions as the previous two.
                                                                                                                          It shares the same bedding arrangement
                                                                                                                          around the walls as the Tomato House.
                                                                                                                          In 1902 the variety of nectarines grown
                                                                                                                          are given as follows; ‘Milton, Downton
                                                                                                                          Improved, Stanwick, Elruge, Byron,
                                                                                                                          Violette Hative and Pine-apple’.
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