Ballynahinch Castle is a hotel overlooking the Ballynahinch River, in Recess. It is famous its for fly fishing. The estate includes the Ballynahinch Lake, in the shadow of the Twelve Bens.
Some 5 km along this road is Ballynahinch Castle, now a hotel, but once the home of the great Martin family, who owned and ruled Connemara from 1700 to the period of the Great Famine (1846-’48).
Ballynahinch Lake, at the foot of Benlettery is the most southerly of a chain of lakes that enclose the Bens on the south and east.
Ballynahinch or Ballinahinch is situated close to Recess in CountyGalway in the West of Ireland, on the road from Recess to Roundstone.