Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Cost and Hours:
Free,mid-May-mid-Sept daily10:00-18:00,lastentry45minutesbe-
fore closing, closed off-season, Churchill Road, Letterkenny, tel. 074/912-5115.
• Continue on R-250, staying right at Driminaught as the road becomes R-251. Watch for
Glenveagh Castle and National Park
signs, and park in the visitors center lot.
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Glenveagh Castle and National Park
One of Ireland's six national parks, Glenveagh's jewel is pristine Lough Veagh (Loch
Ghleann Bheatha in Gaelic). The lake is three miles long, occupying a U-shaped valley
scoured out of the Derryveagh Mountains by powerful glaciers during the last Ice Age.
In the 1850s, this scenic area attracted the wealthy land speculator John George Adair,
who bought the valley in 1857. Right away, Adair clashed with local tenants, whom he
accused of stealing his sheep. After his managing agent was found murdered, he evicted
all 244 of his bitter tenants to great controversy, and set about to create a hunting estate in
grand Victorian style.
