Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Hope Castle — Castleblayney

walled garden
View what I want to do
Hope Castle — Castleblayney
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Walled garden, part of demesne, erected c.1799 when associated Blayney Castle built. Flemish-bond brick wall approximately 3.6m tall to most of east and south sides, with some remains of flat sandstone coping flags but mostly uncapped wall tops or view obscured by vegetation. Derelict former stable block forms south-east corner of garden. Lower rubble stone section of wall to north end of east side with curved corner leading to north wall which is brick-faced to interior, and coursed rubble stone walling to exterior. Large gap to north wall to accommodate later twentieth-century galvanised gates to County Council depot now located in part of former orchard. Section to west end of north wall has additional corner to bring fully rubble stone wall out to abut gable end of south gate lodge to demesne. Some overgrown apple trees survive to north-east sloped orchard which is mostly covered in grass with wide gravel paths.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.