Green Flag Awards 2025/26
We are delighted to announce that the ever-gorgeous gardens of Ardgillan Castle have won a green flag from An Taisce!!
The international Green Flag Award was awarded to 128 parks, gardens, greenways and wildlife sanctuaries around the country today, an increase in 8 awards since last year.
The Green Flag Award is the international quality benchmark for the public green space sector – now operating in 30 countries around the world, including the U.S. and for the first time this year, Ukraine. Now in its 30th year, the programme uses eight key criteria for its assessment. All sites implement a management framework, and then undergo an annual inspection conducted by qualified judges. Once again Ireland has secured its lead in high quality park amenities with more Green Flag Awards being secured by Irish parks and public gardens than by any country, other than the UK where the scheme originated in 1996.
2025 Pollinator Plan Award:
Walled Garden winner:
Ardgillan Walled Garden
Furthermore, the Castle gardens and more Fingal locations were highly commended for their parks and green spaces, as listed below.
- Ardgillan Castle & Demesne
- Malahide Demesne & Talbot Botanical Gardens
- Millennium Park
- Newbridge Demesne
If you want to read more about the awards and see all the winning spaces, click here.
Thank you to our amazing head gardener, Dominica McKevitt, and her team for always going above and beyond to keep the gardens happy, healthy and colourful.
