Tour of Richmond House and Garden's Fermoy

Richmond House and Fermoy's Secret Garden will open it's doors for heritage week.
Come for a tour of the house and garden and find out about the people who lived here.
The house is steeped in history and holds a place in the heart of many Fermoy residents. The house bore witness to difficult and bloody times in Irish history and from the house, the burning of the British barracks by IRA irregulars would have been seen back in 1922.
The house was built in 1837, so falls into the late Georgian/Regency Period, by millers by the name of Smyth. It is designed in an Italianate style. Ballyvolane House (Castlelyons) is another house in the locality that has very similar features and this points to the likelihood of it being the same architect Richard Rolt Brash that designed both, though Richmond has the enviable Bath Stone to the exterior.
Meet our animals – Liam and Noel the bad to the bone goats – experts at escaping their enclosure and entertaining one and all with their head butting antics. Lucy and Eunice, the delicate ladies from St Kilda. These Soay sheep, though shy and retiring, have extraordinary abilities, more mountain goat than sheep and you could say they are ‘woolly jumpers’, very agile and nimble. We have a small brood of hens – these are no common or garden chickens but fancy fowl. So come and see Lady Clucksworth, Eggatha Christie and Hennifer Aniston, along with their sisters in the aviary.