Castle
Parke's Castle
🇮🇪 Ireland · 17th century
Parke's Castle is a 17th-century Manor house. It was originally known as Newtowne and is situated on the shore of Lough Gill, County Leitrim, Ireland.
Parke's Castle was built on the site of an earlier 16th century O'Rourke (Uí Ruairc) tower house. The Gaelic tower house and bawn had been confiscated by The English Crown, following the execution of its last owner, Brian O'Rourke. Subsequently, the site was leased and renovated by Captain Robert Parke in the 1630s. Parke had been granted some of the former O'Rourke lands as part of the Plantations.
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Parke's Castle ranks #2,436 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #57 of the 81 mapped in Ireland. Founded 1628, it is older than 32% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 350 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
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