‘The jewel in the glen’

GLENCAR Lodge, a Victorian hunting lodge associated with the Gore-Booth family, is up for sale in one of Co Leitrim’s most beautiful spots.

The lodge, in scenic Glencar valley and Yeats’ country, close to the lake and waterfall, dates to 1840, and was built by the family whose most famous member was Countess Constance Markievicz.

She was the new Irish beauty presented at a court of Queen Victoria. The countess went on to becomethe first woman elected to the British parliament in 1918, and was also elected to the first Irish Dáil.