Garnish Island

Garnish Island, is an island in Glengarriff harbour, part of Bantry Bay in southwest Ireland, that is a well-known visitor enchantment. The Office of Public Works, which maintains the gardens on the island, makes use of the name Ilnacullin from the Irish Oilean an Chulinn, meaning 'island of holly' to distinguish it from Garinish Island in County Kerry. The garden became designed by way of Harold Peto, 1854–1933, for its owner John Annan Bryce, 1841–1923, a native of Belfast, who, alongside along with his partner Violet, bought the island from the War Office in 1910.

It changed into taken over and remains maintained via the Office of Public Works. Renowned for its gardens and shape a mansion become designed via Peto but grow to be by no means built, the island has played host to writers in conjunction with George Bernard Shaw and George William Russell. There is a restored Martello tower at the island courting from the time of the Napoleonic Wars. The Garnish tower, like others in Cork, however not like other Irish Martello towers, has a instantly cylindrical form that does not splay out at its base.