Glenveagh Castle

Glenveagh Castle is a large castellated Mansion house constructed in County Donegal, Ireland in about 1870. Glenveagh Castle changed into built between 1870 and 1873 with the aid of Captain John George Adair. It stands inside the boundaries of Glenveagh National Park, close to both Churchill and Gweedore in County Donegal, Ireland. It is built within the Scottish Baronial style and consists of a 4 story rectangular hold, surrounded by means of a lawn, and a backdrop of a few 165.Four km² of mountains, lakes, glens and woods entire with a herd of red deer. The Irish Gleann Bheatha interprets into English as Glen of the Birch Trees.

The vacationer middle has shows that explain the park as well as an audio-visual display and is obtainable for purchasers with disabilities. The fortress was built by Captain John George Adair 1823 to 1885 a local of County Laois, and a member of the minor gentry. Adair had made his fortune by chancy land hypothesis in the United States, and he back to Ireland and bought up huge tracts of land in Donegal. Adair had married in 1869, Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie, a daughter of James S. Wadsworth, a Union General inside the American Civil War.