Glenveagh Castle
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Glenveagh Castle (Irish: Caisleán Ghleann Bheatha ) is a Scottish style castle, situated within Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal, Ireland. The castle was built between 1870 and 1873 and consists of a four storey rectangular keep surrounded by a garden, and has a backdrop of some 16,540 hectares of mountains, lakes, glens and woods complete with a herd of red deer. The gardens and castle were presented to the Irish nation in 1981 by Henry McIlhenny of Philadelphia who had purchased the estate in 1937.
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