What is recorded here

Designed landscape is a designed landscape (formal garden) in Clanhugh Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland. The 1659 Down Survey parish map depicts Ballinafid Castle as a tower house standing on the lands of Richard Delamarr between Lough Owel and a smaller lake called Logh Laghen. The survey map describes the site as a fair Castle by the Lough side with a Orchard, while a tradition recorded by Mrs Harvey Kelly of Clanhugh speaks of a castle in the Ballynafid area. No surface remains are visible of the castle or its attached orchard, and the precise location of this medieval structure and its walled garden has not been identified.

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

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