English: Glenveagh Castle and gardens Note – the Google maps here are useless. Please refer to OSI Discovery Series Sheet 6 from which all accurate grid references have been made.

"Glenveagh Castle is a 19th century castellated mansion and was built between 1867 and 1873. Its construction in a remote mountain setting was inspired by the Victorian idyll of a romantic highland retreat.

It was designed by John Townsend Trench, a cousin of its builder and first owner, John George Adair, with whom he had been raised in Co. Laois. The designer appears to have imitated the style of earlier Irish Tower-houses adding an air of antiquity to the castle. The building stone chose was granite, plentiful in Donegal but difficult to work and allowing for little detail." (Text taken from http://www.glenveaghnationalpark.ie/visit.html ).