Castle Forward, Newtowncunningham, Co Donegal – ruin

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.  

p. 68. “(Forward-Howard, Wicklow, E/PB) A long low two storey Georgian house of nine bays; the windows of four outer bays on either side being grouped in pairs. Shallow pilastered porch… Originally the seat of the Forward family, whose heiress was the wife of the 1^st Viscount Wicklow and was herself created Countess of Wicklow in 1793.”