Lismore Castle

Visited this castle today great experience absolutely amazing castle lovely art museum very helpful and friendly staff in the art exhibition and castle was interesting to learn someone still living in the castle. The gardens were great I loved the gardens are a maze it was like being on the crystal maze the gardens were like aztec and the castle was medieval zones just like the crystal maze zones.

Accidentally visited this place. Unfortunately garden was closed but we still had nice time there. Beautiful view, stunning garden. Nice coffee shop there. €10.50 for adult ticket

Plenty of parking locally. Very reasonable admission price. Lots of beautiful displays. Different throughout the seasons.

Superb garden. Did not know it's a hotel. Parked in the town carpark. Paid at kiosk at the entrance to the garden. Split over several levels so allow plenty of time and follow every path as there are some hidden gems such as a tree fern grotto. Really neat and well kept, I was told by only three gardeners. If that's the case they have a good routine. Some choice plants and good ideas to take away. Cafe with seating on a terrace in the sun. Spent almost two hours looking round but it would be longer once the borders are flowering.

I visited this place many of times, really enjoyed how beautiful it is. Plenty of nice locations for photos and videos. Even though you can’t go inside the castle and you can enjoy the gardens only. They have nice place with coffee and dessert and trust me coffee there is very good. But we had a bad experience one day. Me and my boyfriend got there one hour before they close. We finished work, changed and headed there to have some nice time after work. And women who is selling tickets refuses to let us go inside even though we had an hour. It is information on official website that visitors are aloud to go inside one hour before close. We said that we still have on hour and she said in very mean manner: “Are you joking me or what?” I saw this woman couple of times before and she was always very nice. So this behaviour disappointed me a lot. I checked information on website before we went there. So I knew that we have right to entrance a castle one hour before close. That was even more upsetting that we chose this place, we didn’t want to cause any troubles just wanted to get some rest in nice place. And we were told to leave. This place is wonderful. But unfortunately I won’t go back.

We walked the gardens and gallery on a Tuesday afternoon. FYI - you cannot go inside the castle. But the grounds were wonderful and the map was useful to know what you were looking at.

The gardens are nice, but that's it. You can't see much from the castle since it's not open to the public, and the small part that you can see is rubbish. They have a new exhibition in there which is an offense to every artist. If art for you is a white plastic chair with tights sticking out (in the shape of saggy balls), then it's the place for you. Otherwise, don't waste your time in the "gallery" . Edit: price also went up to 10,50€ per adult and not 9€ anymore like some of the older reviews mentioned

We only visited the gardens this time. We went there on June, 2nd and the selection of flowers and plants in blossom was just awesome. Really nice place to visit on a lazy day...

Lismore Castle is a privately owned castle that is not open to the pubic. However, the gardens are open to the pubic for a fee. There are the original gardens and the 19th century gardens. Both are worth seeing. Near the original gardens is a tea room and art gallery. Park outside the 17th century gatehouse and go pay the fee inside the gatehouse.