S1 Ep9: D1 YC Parkes Castle and Wild Rose waterbus
Aug 11 2022
Non Yeats POI: Parkes Castle. GPS location 54.264611, -8.33396
A restored plantation castle of the early 17th century, picturesquely situated on the shores of Lough Gill, once the home of Robert Parke and his family. The Courtyard grounds contain evidence of an earlier 16th century Tower House structure once owned by Sir Brian O'Rourke who subsequently was executed at Tyburn, Lon