This delightful cottage garden has a timeless quality about it, slowly evolving over the years, carefully tended and planted with flowers from garden friends near and far. Established in 1972 by Mrs Jessie Mahaffy, a relative of William Robinson and a granddaughter of the forester at Lissadell, Co Sligo. “Blackrock” is a garden constructed completely on rock. A charming rockery sits above the farmhouse. A grassy corridor winds between a shrubbery and a shady border to a small cottage garden where perennials are interspersed with free seeding aquilegias, foxgloves and yellow poppies. Tree lilies are a feature amongst hydrangeas. Ferns abound in shady areas. A drought resistant mini-meadow and a dry border flourish in the gravel of the yard.