Drenagh Estate& Gardens

Drenagh is a country estate outside Limavady, built in 1837 by the architect Charles Lanyon for Marcus McCausland, replacing an earlier 18th-century house on a different part of the site; the McCausland family had held the surrounding Streeve townland since 1743 and still own the estate today. The demesne covers roughly 1,000 acres of woodland and farmland, of which around 30 acres are laid out as gardens, including a walled garden, an Italian garden, an arboretum, a bog garden and a heather garden, largely dating from the original 1830s-40s design and restored in stages since. The gardens and the on-site Orangery coffee shop open daily, 9am to 4pm, with guided garden tours available by prior arrangement. Dogs are permitted on leads throughout the grounds and outside the Orangery. The estate also hosts weddings and private events, but a garden ticket does not require booking one of these; day visitors can walk the grounds and use the Orangery independently of any function taking place elsewhere on site.