Castle In Meath - Ballinlough Castle Meath
Ballinlough Castle, a hidden gem in the Irish countryside but just one hour from Dublin is home to the same family for almost 400 years.
It can be yours too, for a family holiday, as a corporate getaway, or as a private home for a private wedding.
Ballinlough Castle is also a recognised venue for boutique music festivals.
“There are things and people and places that expand us not beyond our potential, but beyond our parameters. Those and you and this place have afforded me that. Thank you.”
History
“I shall return to this wonderful world of yours” USA Visitor September 2006
“What a wonderful place and incredible staff.” USA Visitor 2007
You can hire the castle for a family event, a corporate getaway, or just to call a castle home. In return you will experience privacy and space associated with a time gone by. You will feel that you are in the middle of nowhere, but you will be only an hour from Dublin.
To stay at Ballinlough is to walk in the grounds and row on the lake, undisturbed by the pace of modern life; to read and eat and talk, perhaps enjoy a massage; time to wonder where your time normally goes.
Do you sometimes yearn for the days when children roamed free, used nature and their own creative imagination to stimulate their minds and bodies, feeling at one with the earth, with sun on their faces and wind in their hair?
Ballinlough is where children find that life. Camp-fires and cook-outs, butterflies and wild flowers and, most precious of all, nobody else. A place and a time for children to be children.
“When Van Morrison wrote of “days like this”, he meant days like yesterday. Thank you”. Guest 2008
Accommodation
“I shall return to this wonderful world of yours” USA Visitor September 2006
“What a wonderful place and incredible staff.” USA Visitor 2007
You can hire the castle for a family event, a corporate getaway, or just to call a castle home. In return you will experience privacy and space associated with a time gone by. You will feel that you are in the middle of nowhere, but you will be only an hour from Dublin.
To stay at Ballinlough is to walk in the grounds and row on the lake, undisturbed by the pace of modern life; to read and eat and talk, perhaps enjoy a massage; time to wonder where your time normally goes.
Do you sometimes yearn for the days when children roamed free, used nature and their own creative imagination to stimulate their minds and bodies, feeling at one with the earth, with sun on their faces and wind in their hair?
Ballinlough is where children find that life. Camp-fires and cook-outs, butterflies and wild flowers and, most precious of all, nobody else. A place and a time for children to be children.
“When Van Morrison wrote of “days like this”, he meant days like yesterday. Thank you”. Guest 2008
Corporate
Ballinlough is one hour from both Dublin city and Dublin airport- the perfect location for any social group, corporate getaway or brainstorming.
Build your team, cultivate new ideas, think freely as you enjoy exclusive use of the castle, gardens and grounds.
A range of activities can be organised on site including: archery, clay pigeon shooting, whisky/wine tasting, yoga, fishing, tennis, golf. Athboy go-kart centre is down the road as is the renowned Causey Farm experience.
Wedding
“Home from home, gracious living at its best in the heart of nature &.. May tradition continue.” Wedding guest 2007
If you want more than just a hotel wedding, something other than a numbered package option, Ballinlough may work for you. Up to 80 guests can be accommodated in the castle dining room, or up to several hundred in a marquee with a range of location options.
An Ideal Location
Concerts
“The site itself was near perfection, with the castle, lake stage and naturally sloping amphitheatre framed by tall trees.”
HOTPRESS Magazine 2006
“Set in a gorgeous walled garden, it’s probably one of the best festival sites in the country.”
Sunday Tribune 29 April 2007
An established concert venue, Ballinlough castle has hosted artists such as Kenny Rogers, Van Morrison, Pet Shop Boys, Carl Cox, Hot Chip, Asian Dub Foundation, Glenn Campbell, Emmylou Harris, Don McClean, Dwight Yoakam.
Music promoters and Band Managers are invited to visit by appointment.
Film & Photo shoots
Ballinlough Castle has been used as a location for feature films, television programmes, documentaries and as a location for fashion advertising photo shoots.
Significant features include:
• 1614 castle & 18th century gates
• Georgian interior
• Lakes & Walled Gardens
• Georgian stable yards & Farmyards
• Woodland
Exhibitions
Host to a 2007 exhibition of outdoor sculpture by renowned Irish wood sculptor Liam O Neill, the gardens at Ballinlough castle offer a secure and idyllic setting for any outdoor pieces.
Gardens
The gardens at Ballinlough castle were restored by Sir John and Lady Nugent in 1995 with help from the Great Gardens of Ireland restoration Programme. They include a substantial walled garden with some significant shrubs, roses and climbers. The picturesque lakeside walk, described recently as a botanist s paradise is home to many rare wild flowers making it a superb habitat for butterflies and other interesting fauna.
The Gardens will re-open in May 2009. Please check this website for opening times.
Contact Us
Nicholas and Alice Nugent
Ballinlough Castle
Clonmellon
Navan
Co. Meath
Office tel: 353 46 94 33234
Mobile tel: 353 86 833 5295
Email: castle@ballinloughcastle.ie
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