The lake temple folly, in Larchill Arcadian Gardens in County Meath, Ireland, the only suviving Ferme Ornée’in Europe.
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Larchill Arcadian Gardens in County Meath, IrelandMore information:
The "Lake Temple", a folly designed to emulate the plunge pool at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, there's a circle of columns, partially roofed at one time to direct rainwater into a well in the newly restored lake. Located in Larchill Arcadian Gardens in County Meath, created in the 18th century as a Ferme Ornée’ or Ornamental Farm, popularised by Marie Antoinette at Versailles. It was the landscape gardening style of the Romantic movement to create a pastoral paradise. By the 20th century, it had all returned to farmland, however when the de Las Casas family acquired the park in 1994, they realised its significance as the only surviving garden of the French Romantic Movement in Europe and sensitively set about restoring the walled garden, follies and especially the lake to recreate the unique character of the Ferme Ornée, now the only surviving, near complete, garden of its type in Europe.