Survey Data
Reg No
40910414
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Social
Original Use
Walled garden
Date
1700 - 1800
Coordinates
194272, 369971
Date Recorded
05/01/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Walled garden complex associated with Brownhall (see 40910401 and 40910402), erected c, 1750, now out of use/in use as farmland. Surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls with roughly dressed and squared quoins to the corners, now largely covered in vegetation; some walls now collapsed/demolished. Remains of rubble stone structures to interior, now overgrown and inaccessible. Located to the south-east of Brownhall, in extensive mature demesne parkland grounds, and to the east of Ballintra.
Appraisal
This large walled garden was originally built/laid-out to serve the estate of Brownhall (see 40910401 and 40910402). The robust boundary walls survive in relatively good condition, although some sections are now collapsed or removed, and the site is now largely out of use and overgrown. The scale of these walled gardens provides an interesting historical insight into the extensive resources needed to run and maintain a large country estate in Ireland during the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, when it would have provided a wide variety of produce for use in the main house etc. The ruinous buildings to site were probably formerly glasshouses and/or potting sheds etc. This complex of former walled gardens adds context to the setting of Brownhall, and is an integral element of the built heritage of the local area. It forms part of a collection of related sites along with the main houses to the north-west, and the complex of outbuildings (see 40910413) to the north-west.