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Ballinlough Castle in Co Westmeath has been re-imagined for a brand new chapter in its 400-year history. Catherine Heaney meets its owners...

An independent festival with a heart-shaped mind and cutting-edge soul. After a long absence, we’ve had some time to think about what we’d like to happen at Ballinlough Castle. Instead of just going back to our roots, we are cultivating shiny new ones.

The Nugents at Ballinlough, who are really O’Reillys, having assumed the surname of Nugent in 1812 to inherit a legacy, are almost unique in being a Catholic Celtic-Irish family who still live in their family castle.