DATES: 30th September | 6th, 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st + 27th October | 3rd, 4th, 10th, 17th + 18th November

PRICE: €65

PLACE: THE GRAIN STORE

Killruddery’s Seasonal Supper Club is back with attendees enjoying a four-course set menu.

Inspired by the abundance of seasonal produce from our Walled Garden and Farm, Head Chef Niall O’Sullivan and his team prepare a vegetable and estate-reared meat focused menu for you to enjoy in our atmospheric 19th Century Grain Store.

Join us by candle light, for an evening near our roaring log fire and enjoy a four-course set menu, complete with a glass of bubbles with botanical flourish from our Walled Garden.

Please book a time slot to attend, as we are keeping numbers low, please allow 48 hours if you are unable to attend as we might have a wait list. Payment for your four-course set menu is taken upon booking. Should you be unable to attend please let us know a minumum of 48 hours before and we will do our utmost to reschedule you to another date, or process a refund should we be unable to.

Please note, this cost does not include additional wine and beverages which you will enjoy on the night. Bookings for our Seasonal Supper Club are limited to a total of 8 individuals per table.

SAMPLE SET MENU FOR SEASONAL SUPPERS HERE. 

PLACE: PIZZA SHED 

PRICE: FREE ENTRY

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

You are invited to come and view ‘Flowers and Light’, an exhibition of paintings by our current Artist in Residence, Yeoung A Yeo, taking place during Pizza Shed opening hours from Thursday, 14th September to Sunday, 29th October.

Having exhibited internationally, we are delighted to have eight of Yeoung A Yeo’s oil paintings on display and available to purchase. Depicting a number of subjects including flowers and nature scenes as well as every day objects, Yeoung A Yeo’s works explore the contrasts of light and shade, something she has been hugely inspired by since moving to Ireland in 2010.

No advance booking for this exhibition is required.

ABOUT YEOUNG A YEO:

Yeoung A Yeo was born in Busan, South Korea. Having painted since she was a toddler and received formal art education as a child, Yeoung A Yeo graduated from university in 1998 with a degree in fine art painting. After graduation, Yeoung A Yeo’s professional career in South Korea included teaching art for over 10 years, and time spent as a designer in an advertising agency. With each experience, she grew as a painter and learned to love her skill even more.

Yeoung A Yeo has been living and working in Dublin since 2010, and she has found Ireland hugely inspirational. Speaking about her experience living in Ireland, she says “Ireland has as many hours without sunlight as it does, with intense contrasts of light. However, the light I thought was absent was always there in the shade. Finding the light in the shadows always inspires me.”

FAQ:

• This exhibition will take place during Pizza Shed opening hours from Thursday, 14th September to Sunday, 29th October. Pizza Shed is open Thursday – Sunday, 12.00 – 21.00
• No advance booking is required
• Park in our main customer car park and follow signs to Pizza Shed in Killruddery Yard

FRIDAY, 22ND SEPTEMBER 

FREE OF CHARGE

PLACE: KILLRUDDERY GARDENS 

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

To celebrate Culture Night 2023, Anthony and Fionnuala Brabazon, Lord and Lady Ardee are delighted to invite you to Killruddery to experience the 17th century heritage gardens of this privately owned Wicklow estate.

Come and enjoy dusk in the formal gardens of Killruddery between 18.00 and 20.00, with access through our Garden Entrance Shop. Pre-booking not required.

ABOUT OUR GARDENS:

Killruddery gardens are among the very few remaining 17th century gardens in Ireland or Britain. They offer stunning vistas, leading the eye into landscape features with the natural background of the Little Sugar Loaf and Bray Head.

The gardens represent a ‘labour of love’ begun by the fourth and sixth Earl of Meath, continued over many generations and actively pursued by the Brabazon family today. The gardens have some twenty acres of grass, long flowering borders, ancient trees and three and a half miles of hedges – all of which must be cut, trimmed and otherwise maintained over the seasons of the year.

Designed in the Baroque style by Hugenot, Bonet (a descendent of great landscape designer, André le Nôtre, who is famous for the gardens of the Palace of Versailles near Paris), he worked within the contours of the landscape and a record dating from 1711 reports that Killruddery was endowed with ‘a Pleasure Garden, Wilderness, Gravel Walks and Bowling Green, all Wall’d about, and well planted with Fruit Trees, with several Canals or Fish-ponds, well stor’d with Carp and Trench...’

The Brabazon family have been living at Killruddery since 1618 and today we are very happy that three generations of our family live here. We have responded to the challenge of preserving the 17th century gardens, with 18th and 19th century additions, together with the house. We strive to ensure that the ingredients which make them so special are protected for our community, visitors and family.

We hope you enjoy stepping back in time during your visit. For more information on our Gardens, visit our website.

ABOUT CULTURE NIGHT: 

Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is a national moment, celebrating all that makes up the richness and diversity of culture in Ireland today, connecting people to cultural activities locally and nationally, and aims to open up pathways to ongoing engagement.

An annual, all-island public event which takes place each year on the third Friday of September, Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied culture is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and every day.

Special and unique events and workshops are specifically programmed at participating locations, and thanks to the continued support of the Arts Council and local Authorities across the island of Ireland, all activities are made available to the public free of charge. For more information visit www.culturenight.ie 

FAQ: 

• This is free event and there is no need to book in advance
• Please dress for the weather
• Garden Open Season at Killruddery takes place from April to October each year, with our Gardens open Tuesday – Sunday, and on Bank Holidays during this time

ADULT: €150

ADULT MEMBER: €135

EVENT DESCRIPTION

To celebrate and be present among autumn’s abundance, we invite you to join us and weave a beautiful, harvest wreath of hedgerow, field and garden bounty.

During this Harvest Wreath Making Workshop, which is complete with two-course lunch, you will weave autumnal golds, browns and auburns into your very own natural style wreath, to decorate your door or any place you choose as the evenings draw in.

All materials for this workshop will be supplied, with much dried foliage from the cut flower border of our Victorian Walled Garden, along with the woodlands and hedgerows of Killruddery to best represent this time of year and seasonality.

This workshop will be facilitated by Founder of Killruddery Cut Flowers, Fionnuala Brabazon (Lady Ardee), Lead Florist, Hanka Miziova and will take place in our sunlit Garden Room.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who wishes to create their very own harvest wreath using beautiful, seasonal material. The day will begin with a woodland walk, followed by a wreath making demonstration by the Killruddery Cut Flowers team, and a two course lunch in the The Grain Store, with a menu designed by Head Chef Niall O’Sullivan using produce from our Walled Garden.

FAQ:

• This workshop will take place from 10.00 - 16.00
  
• All materials and tools are supplied 
• Dress to suit the day's weather, with shoes to suit a woodland walk
• Please allow plenty of time to arrive, park in our main customer car park and follow the signs to the workshop