Glenveagh Castle

Country house in Donegal, Ireland, dating from 1865–1905

Freestanding four-bay two-storey castellated house with four-stage square-plan tower to northwest and number of two and three-storey extensions, built 1867-73, with two-storey wing to northeast built 1888 and three-stage round-plan tower to northeast, built 1901. Projecting entrance porch to northeast. One and two-storey stone outbuildings to southwest. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with stone and rendered chimneystacks, decorative cast-iron hoppers and rainwater goods, and cast-iron finials. Coursed rubble stone walls with battered base to square-plan tower and tooled quoins to castle. Lined-and-ruled render walls with stone parapet to extension to southwest. Parapet string course with dentils, crenellated parapets with squared and chamfered coping stones and stepped battlements. Crow-stepped stone parapets to gable wall to northeast. Corner turret to southwest elevation, corbelled bartizans and machicolation to square-plan tower. Round-arch opening to main entrance to northeast elevation with chamfered dressed stone surrounds and drip-moulding. Decorative stone plaque over doorway. Square-headed and segmental-arch doorways to other entrances. Timber sheeted doors. Square-headed and round-arch window openings to northeast elevation with chamfered dressed stone surrounds, and projecting and integral stone sills. Two-over-two pane replacement timber sliding sash windows, caseme

Type:
Country house

Period:
1865–1905

Where:
Donegal, Ireland

Coordinates:
55.04°N, 7.97°W

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