BALLYBEG HOUSE, BALLINGLEN, CO.WICKLOW
Ballybeg is a colonial style lodge in Ballinglen, minutes outside the town of Tinahely, providing a venue for small, intimate house weddings for up to 60 people and marquee weddings for 60-150. Staff will meet your particular wishes and requirements. Ballybeg is an approved venue for on-site civil marriages.
Some of Ireland’s oldest oak and beech trees offer shelter to horses, cows and sheep grazing in the fields. Guests enter through the sunny front veranda, overlooking the garden, where pre-dinner drinks can be enjoyed. There are five uniquely different and inviting bedrooms. The Blue Suite, with a comfortable four-poster bed, fireplace for big log fires, has sweeping views over Croghan Valley, partly obscured by oak, cedar and Spanish chestnut trees planted over 350 years ago.
The history of Ballybeg House dates back to the early 1700s when the Rev. Michael Symes, the first in a long line of Trinity College educated Clergymen leased, from the Earl of Marlton, the lands at Ballybeg and surrounding countryside.
Many years later the Fossett Circus Family used the extensive farm buildings as their winter training quarters and being suspicious that the main residence was haunted, levelled it to the ground in 1948 and built in its place the colonial style residence that remains today.
