Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - formal garden
Clanhugh Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clanhugh Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM011-077001-
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The National Monuments Service's description
No surface remains visible of Ballinafid Castle (WM011-077----) and an orchard which was attached to the castle. The castle is described in the Down Survey map as a 'fair Castle by the Lough side with a Orchard' (NLI MS 723-4). According to Mrs Harvey Kelly of Clanhugh there is a tradition of a castle in the Ballynafid area’ (ASI Field Report 24/08/1983). The precise location of this castle and its orchard or walled garden has not been identified. The medieval castle is depicted as a tower house type structure on the 1659 Down Survey parish map of Leny standing on the lands of 'Richard Delamarr' an 'Irish Papist' (NLI, MS 723-4). The castle was located between Lough Owel and a smaller lake depicted as 'Logh Laghen' on the Down Survey map placing it in the present townland of Clanhugh Demesne in the area around Clanhugh Lodge.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 August 2017
References
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.