I meet Sarah Slazenger in the Walled Garden.

Well, Pariscourt is one of the most intriguing and beautiful estates in Ireland.

And it dates back right into Norman times.

And there was a Norman general who came here, Eustace de la Poire, And that was where the name Powers Court derived from.

And then in the subsequent centuries, it was fought over by various Wicklow clans.

And then finally, in 1603, it was granted to Sir Richard Wingfield.

Well, it was a fairly wild Wicklow sort of landscape.

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