Ballynahinch Castle

Country house in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1750–1900

Detached three-storey country house, built 1754, now in use as hotel and fishing resort. Front, north, elevation is five bays with shallow entrance breakfront, south elevation has seven-bay top floor and eight-bay lower floors, east has four-bay top floor and three-bay lower floors and west elevation is multiple bay. Single-storey addition to east end of south and south end of east elevations and top storey of building all added c.1890. Addition and store rooms in adjoining courtyard to west also built c.1890. Recent single-storey additions to ground floor elevations to east and south and accommodation block to western end of courtyard. Pitched slate roofs, rendered and pebble-dashed chimneystacks with moulded rendered coping to central and western stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Gables to east and south elevations and to breakfront. Dormer windows to north and south elevations with curvilinear pediments, and breakfront and north end of east elevation having crowstepped gables, all with ball finials. Pebble-dashed walls with rendered plinth, carved stone string course between upper floors and to parapet level of walls except for gables, with ball finials, carved stone copings. Crenellated parapets to western end of north and south elevations and centre of eastern elevation. Square-headed window openings having carved limestone label-mouldings and replacement timber window

Type:

Country house

Period:

1750–1900

Where:

Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:

53.46°N, 9.86°W

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