and castles.

I’d had so much fun talking to Cian that I hadn’t taken much notice of the surroundings. We drove past Letterkenny and had Glenveagh National Park to our left. Now it was Cian’s turn to lecture me, he told me about the castle as we drove over Owencarrow river.

“If you just follow the river, it will lead you to Lough Beagh, and its small castle. It’s not that old, but very charming – the Gardens are famous. Actually, there’s a mystery attached to the castle. Or to one of the previous owners, Arthur Kingsley Porter. He was an American, art-historian and archaeologist. He and his wife bought the castle, moving from America because of depression. Supposedly since Arthur was secretly gay. Story goes that Arthur was left by his lover and took his own life, but today no one knows for sure, he just vanished from the Inishbofin Island in 1933.”

I was intrigued, castles and mysteries, what more do you need?