Ross Castle, Ireland

Last year before St Patrick's Day, I rented the tower of Ross Castle for a night for my family. Ross Castle is in a backwoods location near Finea on the Cavan/Westmeath border, near Lough Sheelin. The Website is http://www.ross-castle.com/ .

Here is the castle tower. We slept on the top floor.



The storied history of the castle is written on this plaque:



Here is the view from the tower, looking down to Lough Sheelin.



Locally there is horse-riding and fishing. It really is the stuff dreams are made of. Bizarrely, I grew up about 15 miles from Ross Castle but never knew it existed. It is quite isolated, only accessible via a narrow bog road, so I never even knew it was there. Check it out at http://www.ross-castle.com/.