Red Castle, Moville, Co Donegal – hotel  

Red Castle, Moville, Co Donegal – hotel  

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. 241. “(Cochrane, sub Dundonald, E/PB) An early C18 house of two storeys over basement and nine bays, with a high-pitched roof and dormered attic; standing behind a protective wall on the shore of Lough Foyle. Piers with hall and pineapple finials built into the wall in front of house; suggesting that ther was formerly a water-gate and railings here. The seat of the Doherty family; passed to a branch of the Dondonald Cochranes with the marriage 1866 of Elizabeth Doherty to Capt Hon Ernest Cochrane.” 

https://www.redcastlehoteldonegal.com

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