ANNOUNCING A BRAND NEW CLASS AT KILLRUDDERY HOUSE & GARDENS
YOGA FLOW

Hatha Vinyasa Yoga combining elements from Iyengar and Ashtanga Yoga
SLIM DOWN, TONE UP, CHILL OUT!
Niamh Condron is a Certified Yoga teacher trained at YogaWorks Studio, Los Angeles, California.
Visit www.thistorsion.com/yoga

Starts Saturday May 26th  1 2 .1 5 – 1 .1 5 pm

On the Farm

Killruddery Farm Producer Market Saturday 5th May 10 – 4 (no entry fee applies) read more here

In the Gardens

Teddy Bears Picnic, 12noon – 5pm last entry 4.30.

Gardens Now Open Daily, 9a.m. – 5pm last entry 4.30.

The Tearoom is always open when the Gardens are open!

A Celebration of Cinema! Screening My Best Girl A Silent Film with life piano accompianment in the Orangery, Thursday the 10th of May. Read More here.

Brand new Dance Classes for Children Saturday Mornings 10a.m.

Nordic Walking Read more here

In the Ticket Office

To buy your Friends of Killruddery Season Pass Read more here.

To buy a Killruddery Chopping board: visit our growing shop.(feel free to pop in just for that – its in the New Ticket Office!!)

Keep an eye on what is happening at Killruddery

Here in what’s on   and here in Ongoing activities…we are adding to the list all the time!

Hope to see you here!

Anthony, Fionnuala and all the Killruddery Team.

We had a great Market on Easter Sunday. There was lots of enthusiasm from the stall holders and great support from the local community. It’s great to see the Horseyard, which is so full of character, becoming alive again after so many years of slumber.  After the huge success of the market on Easter Sunday we are going to have one on the first Saturday of the month until the end of the season in October so the next one is the  5^th May . It’s a showcase for the artisan, craft and creative community of Bray, Wicklow and beyond with more than 30 stalls located indoors and outdoors at the former Horseyard on the estate. Indeed, many of the food and craft stalls who participated at Easter will return including Corleggy Cheese, Malone’s Fruit Farm, Little Delights, Wild Irish Patês, Kingfisher Tea, Simply Toys, Veronica Roden Jewellery, The Real Olive Company and Carrigamuc Cottage Chemical Free vegetables. Some confirmed new additions to the market include Hamburger Marys, YUM, Silverdaze, Ponchokids, Moonwave Nursery , Bookaholic and Vintage Kids. The hugely popular Crepe Box will also be serving delicious sweet and savoury pancakes made from free range eggs sourced locally from Bushy Farm in Delgany.  There’s plenty of room so we can accommodate a wide array of market stalls. We were going to have some nice Killruddery ewe-lambs for sale in the Easter Market but they were too jumpy and kept escaping so we put them back out in the field. Hopefully we can make a better pen for them for this time.

The event commences at 10am, concluding at 4pm. The Farm Market is free, however the admission fee to the garden is €6.50 for adults and free for children under the age of 12. Elsewhere at Killruddery on Saturday, 5^th May 2012 early risers can attend a Dawn Chorus walk led by bird expert Eanna O’Sullivan. A Teddy Bear’s Picnic is also planned for kids and their favourite soft toys and dolls on Sunday, 6^th May 2012.

Anyone who would like a stall should contact market@killruddery.com to see if there is availability.

The Irish Tree Growers Association is holding a walk around the woods of Killruddery with Lord Meath on the morning of the 20th of April. This will be a technical forestry walk looking at woodland regeration schemes, clearfell commercial sites, onsite chipping and biomass creation from such sites, onsite mobile saw-milling and much more. There are thirty places reserved for season pass holders so please contact the office between 9.30 to 12.30 or email info@killruddery to get more details.

Dear Friends
We’re delighted it’s spring again. Winter projects have resulted in a new entrance and parking area leading into a ticket office with a small and select retail area; the creation of perhaps Ireland’s largest Sandpit with its resident tyre dragon becoming a vocal point for Kids in the Apple Orchard Picnic Area; a make over for the Tearooms; an events programme that will have something for everyone!

News highlights for April!

We are hosting our first Killruddery Farm Spring Market on, Easter Sunday at 10.30a.m. until 4pm. We are delighted to be joined by a host of some of the best Artisan food and crafts stalls including Coleegy Cheese, Ed Hicks, Dennis Heally and many more. See here for more information. We propose holding a great Farmers’ Market monthly, to be held on the first Saturday of every month  in the horseyard, so please if you want to have a great local Farmers’ Market come and be part of the success of this one!

By now our Easter Sunday Treasure  Hunt has become a tradition; Calling all would be detectives to find the clues  to help save Easter for all and securing a fine gold Easter egg to add to their stash! For this event garden entrance will be  25 euro  per family. See here for more information.

Our First Event day of the year is on Easter Sunday with our famous Easter Egg hunt in the garden and the first ever Killruddery Farm Market in the farmyards. We also have a charity bring and buy sale on Thursday the 19th of April. The Month of May kicks off with a dawn chorus walk at 5am! and a Farm Market (slightly later you will be glad to hear)on the 5th of May. This is followed by a Teddy Bear’s Picnic on the Sunday the 6th. There’s Falconry on the 19th .. and the list goes on. It’s all up on the events page.

Of course there’s our regular on-going activities…Dance Classes for children ages 4 – 11 beginning April 21st (still some places left )  Drawing Classes,  Nordic Walking, Photography, and details of our new the Supper Club will be published later in April.. There is talk of Flower arranging and Up-cycling workshops also, so watch our facebook page or our website to get updates…

Finally, we’re not joking, we think it is Ireland’s biggest sandpit which has been created in the Walled Garden, surrounded by great lumps of wood, cut from a tree that fell in the avenue, with a huge “Tyre Dragon”, re-cycled from the farm, which has been built by the industrious and hard working WWOOFers (Willing Workers on Organic Farms). We have great hopes of entertaining many small people on a daily basis this summer!

From Monday 16^th April, Nordic Walking classes will be held on Killruddery Estate, offering the opportunity to try a new exercise in the fields and woods of one ofCountyWicklow’s finest estates.

Meeting at 7pm, Instructor Dairine Nuttall will provide Nordic Walking Poles and show how the use of them can provide an upper body workout while walking and enjoying the scenery.

Classes last an hour and fifteen minutes and are suitable for a range of fitness levels.  Longer Nordic Walks of 2 – 2.5 hours are also available from Tuesday 10^th April.

For further information or to book a class, please contact Dairine at 086 1936861 or email her at dnuttall@eircom.net

With great pride we announce that the launch of Killruddery Farm Market will be held on Easter Sunday from 10am to 4pm. We have brought together a great selection of food, growers, producers and craft stalls for you to enjoy. Well known artisans such as Corleggy Cheese, Malone’s Fruit Farm, Ed Hicks,The Real Olive Company,Little Delights Cakes,Organic Delights, Carraignamuc Cottage Chemical Free Fruit and Vegetables, band Georges Patisserie. We also have selection of craft stalls present including Helena Ruuth, Celtos Croiprints, Simply Toys, Janice Burns Woodturning Crafts and Veronica Roden Jewellery. Yummy cakes and Easter treats from Little Delights, Smoked Ham Fillets and Baby Bacon Jam from Ed Hicks Butchers and exotic teablends from Kingfisher Tea.The Crepe Box will also be serving delicious sweet and savory pancakes. If you can find the time to visit, you’ll not be disappointed. This is no urban farmers market; there will be a selection of farm animals from Killruddery and if you want you can even buy a hogget or two but you will need a department of Agricuture flock number to take your purchase home!