In its more recent history, Clenaghans was inherited by Winnifred "Winnie" Clenaghan. Winnifred’s first cousin was renowned Irish painter, Sir John Lavery. Lavery was born in Belfast but orphaned at a young age and spent much of his young life at Clenaghan’s, keeping up a correspondence with the farm into his old age.
Lavery would go on to become the official painter of the First World War and a portrait artist to Winston Churchill, the British royal family, the major players of the Irish War of Independence and most prolifically, his wife and muse, Hazel Lavery.
Winnie's brother was Eddie Clenaghan, who was a scrulptor and protege of Lavery's and had visited Lavery's studio in London on many occassions. Tragically, in 1942 and at the age of fourty-seven, Eddie was murdered on his way to report a group of American GI's who were refusing to leave the pub. He was discovered unconscious by his bicycle the following morning.
Displayed in both Clenaghan’s Accommodation and Restaurant are Lavery prints, memorabilia and letters, many of which cannot be found anywhere else along with some busts by Eddie Clenaghan.