Ballynahinch Castle and River

Artist(s): Thomas Colville Scott (Draughtsman)

View of Ballynahinch Castle looking north across the Owenmore river. The building stands on a hill in the middle distance, surrounded by trees. There is a rowing boat on the river, and a branch of a tree floating in the foreground.

Inscribed in Image

  • Caption outside of boundaries of image – Ballynahinch Castle & River

Image Details

Genre Landscape
Technique Pencil works
Subject(s) Architecture
Geographical Location
  • Ballynahinch Castle – Castle
  • Connaught – Province
  • Galway – County
Keyword(s) Boats, Buildings, Castles, Mansions, People, Rivers, Trees
Colour Monochrome
Dimensions 8.5 cm x 7.4 cm
Published / created 1853

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account Ireland: Journal of a visit to Connemara
Contributor(s)
Note Thomas Colville Scott
Print or manuscript Manuscript
Location of image in copy p. 35
Source copy National Library of Ireland MS 49525
Permalink https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1364896866
Rights Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

Sunday, Feby. 13th <br>Remained at Ballynahinch to-day to muse over the incidents of the week, and view the Policy grounds attached to the Castle. There is a good field, not of land, but of rocks and water, to work upon, and the scene might be made truly a ‘Highland House’; but up to the present time, the <em>cutting</em> and <em>carving</em> that has taken place, and the <em>unfinished</em> and <em>poverty stricken</em> state of everything around the Castle, has only weakened the natural romanticness of the spot. [p. 35]
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