placenamesCastletownkindalen
Baile an Chaisleáin
The estate record distinguishes a mapped earlier house from George Papworth’s later design.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile an Chaisleáin · Irish · main form
- Castletownkindalen · English · main form
Place & story
Two buildings on one estate site
Middleton Park in Kilhugh belongs to Castletownkindalen parish. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record dates its Italianate house to around 1850, designed by George Papworth for George Augustus Boyd. It has six bays and two storeys above a basement. Boyd was resident when Griffith’s Valuation was published in 1854, with the building valued at £100. This house replaced a smaller predecessor shown on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map, which also recorded extensive gardens to its southeast. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castletownkindalen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Middleton Park: Landed Estates property5861 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.