The tranquil surrounds of Parke's Castle, with swans drifting by on Lough Gill and neat grass cloaking the old moat, belie the fact that its early Plantation architecture was created out of an unwelcome English landlord's insecurity and fear.
The restored, three-storey castle forms part of one of the five sides of the bawn, which also has three rounded turrets at its corners.
The castle is in County Leitrim, just over the border from County Sligo, 11km east of Sligo town.
