National Botanic Gardens

Gardens covering 20 ha/49 acres in the residential Dublin suburb of Glasnevin, Republic of Ireland, established in 1795 but redesigned from 1834 by Ninian Niven; the fine collections of plants include many rare and exotic varieties. The palm houses were built in phases from 1843 to 1876 by Richard Turner of Dublin, who later built the Great Palm House in Kew Gardens, London. The last wing of the palm house had to be rebuilt in 1884 after it collapsed.

The property was once owned by the English poet Thomas Tickell before being sold to the Royal Dublin Society and is famous as having been a meeting place of some of the greatest literary figures of the 18th century. These included Joseph Addison, Patrick Delany, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, and Thomas Parnell.