Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Lets get that timber out safely and make this small 3 acre section of a hundred acre forest, a garden again. Great work by all to get this far but most of the credit must go to Coillte Teoranta for having the faith in us to restore the Colclough Walled Garden.

Envile Forstry Ltd from Borris in Co. Carlow are on site, doing an incredible job under the most difficult of conditions.

Follow the Red Bricks

Red bricks appear in many different places at Tintern Abbey. In the Abbey, the Walled Garden, the Coach house, the Stables, the Lime kiln, the Reverends house at Seaview and the Corn Mill. Who knows where else.
Where were they made? When were they made? The Brick field seem the obvious answer on the south side of the Tintern river. But the Quarry Hole should not be overlooked as a source of Clay just west of seaview on the north side of the river.

Follow the Bricks!

There is no smoke without fire

"There is no smoke without fire"




Great things are about to happen and great things take time.
Patience is a virtue seldom found in man, but the gardener knows, when he plants a seed that he may see no return for days, months, or even years, but as sure as eggs is eggs, a green shoot appears and then a seedling and the a plant and then a flower.
Patience......

Colclough Walled Garden Volunteers

"No man ever died, planting an apple tree"

Their is a great history of volunteering at Tintern Abbey. Sir Vesey Colclough established the first volunteer militia in Ireland which fought the Whiteboys and was based upon the American militia, which eventually gained independence from our neighbours and went on to establish the United States of America.
Now, while our restoration goal probably lacks the global-historical impact of American independence, for the volunteers and the Colclough Walled Garden, something greater will be achieved. Positive action, creative valued work in a negative unimaginative apathetic world. Their will be no losers in this restoration, no defeated side, only endless positivity.