1810 – Rockingham, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
Originally built as a two storey house for General Robert King by John Nash. In 1822 an extra floor was added and after a fire in the 1860s it was rebuilt.
Originally built as a two storey house for General Robert King by John Nash. In 1822 an extra floor was added and after a fire in the 1860s it was rebuilt.
Originally built as a two storey house for General Robert King by John Nash. Considered one of Nash’s finest Classical work in Ireland,
Detached four-bay two-storey former hunting lodge of Rockingham Demesne, with castellated corner towers – originally five,
Sited on Castle Island (named due to a 13th century tower on it, known as McDermott’s Castle) in Lough Key,
A fine Gothic style gatehouse into the Rockingham Demesne, now Lough Key Forest Park. Many of the other gatehouses were designed by Humphrey Repton (draughtsman to John Nash) but this differs hugely from the other more classically designed lodges associated with the demesne.
In the centre of Lough Key Forest & Activity Park there is the ruins of a former Church of Ireland from the old Rockingham Estate.