What’s included in the entry price for a full ticket

• A guided tour of the House (which is between 45 and 50 minutes, this time being the most convenient – not too long, not too short – for the majority of our visitors)

• Entry to the current exhibitions at Lissadell: 1. The 1916 Gallery commemorating the centenary of the 1916 Rising. 2. The Countess Markievicz Gallery,  3.
• Women’s Suffrage: 100 years of Achievement?  4. The Yeats Gallery. 5. The Celtic Renaissance Gallery  – note that these exhibitions are self guided

• Admission to the Alpine Garden, and admission to the Victorian Kitchen Garden  and to the Leonard Cohen Memorial Garden (wear comfortable shoes).
  

• Woodland walks (wear comfortable shoes, and wellington boots in wet weather).

To reach the House from the Coach House/Riding Arena visitor reception area, follow the panoramic walk from the Riding Arena, past the Victorian Privy down to the House.  We would be really grateful if you don’t walk on the grass.  You enter the House via the porte cochère, and leave via the underground subway. Visitors need to be mobile. There is no wheelchair access.

To reach the Alpine Garden, visitors can take the Ice House route from the East side of the House (to the right of the image below, follow the yellow dots), or can take the avenue down towards the sea when exiting the subway;  visitors then have a choice, either the meadow walk (follow the blue dots) to join the woodland walk at the Ice House, or (walking further along the main avenue) the Ha Ha walk (follow the red dots). Visitors need to be mobile.

House Tour

Our guided tour of the house is 45 to 50 minutes in length. This time has been selected as the most convenient for all our visitors. As you come towards the house from the panoramic walk, you will see the house as it was designed to be seen by the Architect, Francis Goodwin, from the East (which is the front of the house), rising from the simplicity of the gravel & grass platform, with no clutter around it. You will enter Lissadell through the porte cochere at the side of the house, up the steps and through the main doors. You will walk through the hall  (paved with Kilkenny marble), and first visit the Billiard Room, and next the Gallery (from which you can see the view from the Bow Room windows made famous by the poet W. B. Yeats); you will then visit the Ante Room, the Drawing Room (from which you can again see the views through the “Great Windows open to the South” which enchanted the poet) and the Dining Room. These reception rooms are on the ground floor. Next you will proceed downstairs to the Kitchen, Servant’s Hall, pantries, wine cellar, china room, housekeeper’s room, butler’s room, the garden room, the contemporary literature room, the nursery room with children’s toys, and various other staff & work rooms. You will leave through the subway from the sunken courtyard, which leads visitors back up towards the Coach House. For more information on the house click on HOUSE above.