lough eske

Lough Eske is a large lake found to the south of the Blue Stack Mountains. The River Eske flows from the lake entering the sea at Rossnowlagh. By the lakeshore you will see some tall gateposts. The much overgrown avenue behind the gates leads to Lough Eske Castle.

The estate was developed by the Brooke family in the 18th century, and the house that they built was a reconstruction of an earlier Jacobean building.The present ruin was built in the middle of the 19th century by Thomas Brooke. The building was burnt out in 1939 and is in a highly dangerous state.