Barmeath Castle in County Louth is a fifteenth-century tower house that later evolved into an impressive neo-Norman country house under transformation by the first Lord Bellew in the 1830s. The ancestral seat of the Barons Bellew since 1670, the castle features eighteenth-century formal additions and distinctive crenellated architecture with fat corner turrets designed by Hertfordshire architect Thomas Smith. The estate encompasses 10 acres of gardens designed by landscape architect Thomas Wright in the eighteenth century. The walled garden has been recently restored and is now open to the public.
