1780 Print

This is a hand-tinted print of :

'Caldwell Castle the Beautiful Seat of Sir James Caldwell in Ireland'
published by F.Newbery, London in 1780.

A few years earlier, Sir James Caldwell had spent more than £16,000 building

'a most comfortable good house, a very large court of excellent offices, ...two very large walled gardens with fish ponds, a beautiful temple built on the Black Rock glazed with painted glass'.

1780 print of Castle Caldwell
_{© Fermanagh County Museum.}
_{Image Ref: 01923}

The four-bay house is shown among the trees in the left background. A walled area nearby, probably the courtyard, incorporates a two-storey coach-house and a small building with a high pointed roof. Below this may be one of the walled gardens.

On the extreme right of the print, in the centre, is the small octagonal temple. The bridge is evidence of higher water levels than today.

Either the sailing boat or the rowing boat in the foreground may represent St. Patrick's Barge, owned by Sir James Caldwell. This is the boat from which the fiddler, Denis McCabe, fell in 1770. His death is commemorated on the Fiddler's Stone.

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