Ashford Castle Hotel and Resort

[J.Edward]

This was a commission I did back in January/February of 2016.
The process started in May of 2015, but got held up for a while till they were ready to proceed in January.
This was one of the most challenging pieces to date. There was a lot of research required.
I spent a lot of time on Google maps and in Streetview trying to get views of what I needed to map.
They had some aerial imagery but not enough to do the whole property.
Real world mapping is a lot less forgiving than fantasy mapping.

The castle had been renovated recently and more property added and new structures.
They had an older map but it didn't show the full property at this date.
They wanted the map done as much like the previous map as possible.
That was tricky as the previous artist used an unusual perspective and things were not to scale or in the right locations.
So I had to mimic this but with bad sat images to work with. That was difficult to say the least.
I had a 4 week deadline which was also tough to meet, given all the research required.

But I was thrilled to have an actual castle as a client and I'm pretty happy with the result.
The client did not need text labels but I like to add them to maps I post so I added some that were similar to the older map.
The posted map is at 40% of original size, so I'm adding some detail images.


Detail close-ups