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is internationally recognised for its rare species of plants and also its plant nurseries. Ambrose
Congreve's gardening achievements were acknowledged by Queen Elizabeth, who awarded him a CBE for services to horticulture, and by Trinity College Dublin, which granted him an honorary doctorate. Ambrose Congreve also won 13 Gold Medal awards at the Chelsea Garden Show in London for this garden.
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and a four-acre walled garden. The entire collection consists of over three thousand different trees and shrubs, more than two thousand
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Congreve assembled the Mount Congreve Library, an interesting and valuable collection of books, many of which bore a unique bookplate comprising the arms of Congreve impaling those of Ussher. The library was catalogued by John Congreve's grandson and namesake and a catalogue of the library was
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which was their principal seat from the 14th century. The first of the family to settle in the
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Christian Congreve died in 2011 and left the estate in trust to the Irish State. The contents of the house including the Mount Congreve Library collection were sold by public auction in May (London by Christie's) and July (Waterford by Mealy's) 2012.
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1082:Castle Maine
1057:Cahir Castle
1032:Black Castle
1022:Bantry House
964:Townley Hall
939:Slane Castle
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