Mount Congreve, 18th-century country house in County Waterford, Ireland.

Mount Congreve is an 18th-century country house near Kilmeaden standing on a Georgian estate overlooking the River Suir. The property spans seventy acres of woodland gardens and a four-acre walled garden with paths and terraces throughout.

Local architect John Roberts designed and built the mansion in 1760 for John Congreve, then High Sheriff of County Waterford. This Georgian period marked the foundation for the estate's development and its gardens over the following centuries.

Ambrose Congreve, who died in 2011 aged 104, won 13 gold medals at the Chelsea Garden Show for these gardens and received a CBE for services to horticulture. The walled garden covers four acres within seventy acres of planted woodland, and the gardens are open to the public.

The best time to visit is during dry weather when the paths are easiest to walk and plants are fully developed. Visitors should wear sturdy footwear and allow plenty of time to explore the different garden sections at a relaxed pace.

John Congreve assembled the Mount Congreve Library, whose books carried a bookplate combining the Congreve arms with those of the Ussher family, his wife Mary's family. His grandson and namesake catalogued it, and a printed catalogue appeared in 1827. The library was auctioned by Christie's in London in May 2012 and by Mealy's in Waterford that July.