Next camera club meeting

 Gothic Revival summer house (pre-1842) built by Daniel O’Connell

Some of the Fairy houses hidden in the gardens

We are meeting at the carpark by Derrynane Gardens June 2nd for our next camera club night. Bring tripod and a charged up camera, rain coat and lots of spirit. Everyone welcome, look forward to meeting you all there.

Derrynane House and Gardens, part of the Derrynane National Park.

Daniel O'Connell
(1775-1847)
The ancestral home of Daniel O'Connell, Derrynane House is a public museum commemorating one of Ireland's leading historical figures and arguably the greatest ever Irishman, known by the nation as the Great Liberator.

Barrister, early civil rights activist, politician and statesmen, Daniel O'Connell was a huge figure amid the upheavals of the early 19th Century in Ireland . O'Connell was born in a humble cottage to a Catholic family in nearby Caherciveen but came to live at Derrynane House with his uncle from an early age. His uncle "Hunting Cap" O'Connell had grown rich through smuggling with France and Spain and when he died childless in 1825 the Derrynane estate was left to Daniel O'Connell whose descendants went on to live at Derrynane until 1958.

  The house has a museum and a café. The sub-tropical gardens are wonderful and take advantage of the mild climate influenced by the Gulf Stream.Plantation and garden walks were laid out by the O’Connells in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, principally north and west of the house .  The old Gothic Revival summer house (Pic:3) in the gardens is directly associated with Daniel O’Connell, who built it as his solitary study .