Emo Court, Co Laois, Ireland for the Office of Public Works

Conservation Plan with Blackwood Associates

Emo Court is a complex landscape which bears traces of many phases of garden history and illustrates the changes in taste through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: from Baroque avenues to informal landscape park, acquiring the qualities of a picturesque landscape park and later embellished with high Victorian horticulture. The Portarlingtons were highly cultured and well connected owners who brought influences from some of the most significant figures in designed landscapes of Britain and Ireland.  Sarah wrote the historic landscape section of the Conservation Plan.

Main image c the Office of Public Works