The historical setting of Carton House with its walled 1,100-acre parkland estate now plays host to two of Irelands finest parkland courses.
A somewhat clash of styles is smoothed away by this idyllic setting and the advice is to make sure to play both.

The O’Meara is essentially a target course of the highest standard that makes splendid use of the estates rolling hills, specimen trees and the River Rye – Described as a kinder course for the score card from the regular tees.
The Montgomerie however provides a track of few trees, rolling fairways with pot bunkers a plenty and tall fescue grasses that swallow up most wayward shots.

With an outward then inward nine this has all the hallmarks of a typical coastal links - Monty’s well-documented sound byte--'it's such a links style that you expect to see the sea over the wall of the estate, but it's not there' – rings very true.