Bishopscourt

Bishopscourt: 'The walks and grounds are capable of being made very pretty and the Garden is still very productive it has been long under great neglect, we noticed some very large Mountain Ash and Portugal Laurels with a few shrubs of the rarer kind. An English gardener whom his lordship has lately brought over has already begun to make some alterations for the better.' (Samuel Dukinfield Swarbreck, Tour through the Isle of Man by Captain William Latham, July 1815)