Ireland · Partial ruin
Parke's Castle
Parke's Castle is a 17th-century manor house and fortified bawn on the shore of Lough Gill in County Leitrim, Ireland. It was built by Robert Parke in the 1630s on the site of an earlier 16th-century O'Rourke tower house and comprises a gatehouse, towers, reinforced bawn walls and a cobbled interior courtyard.
First raised
1628
Its prime
1635
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1635
The shape it held in its prime.
Set directly on the western shore of Lough Gill, the site comprises a stone-built manor house set behind a rectangular bawn with crenellated curtain walls pierced by shot-holes. A prominent stone gatehouse fronts the approach, with larger defensive towers anchoring the northwest and northeast corners and a pair of smaller sentry towers on the southern wall. A cobblestone-paved interior courtyard fills the bawn and a southern sally-port (water gate) opens to the lake; the manor rises immediately behind the battlements, all complete and occupied in the 1630s.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1635.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Parke's Castle — including 2 interiors: cobbled bawn courtyard, foundations of the earlier o'rourke tower (subsurface reveal). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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