NEWPARK COUNTRY HOUSE Kiltoom in County Roscommon Eire, was reborn from the ashes of fire in 1860 and rebuilt in the Georgian style, but the original old Jacobite Courtyard and cellars beneath this house, still hold feelings of mystery and suspense, where an escape tunnel can be found and an old smoke room for preparation of food. The old map taken from our house records, shows the location of Newpark house to Moyvannan Castle (the ancient castle of the O' Kelly Clan), Lough Ree and Hodson Bay.
Inside the old Cellars beneath the house, which was originally the kitchens and lead into the old Jacobite courtyard, we are creating an atmosphere reminisant of the ancient celts, our bar will be renamed 'The Morrigan' in honour of the Celtic Goddess Morrigan who morphed into a crow and flew over the ancient battle fields, when she was known as Babd Catha, the battle Crow. Our function room will be redesigned also embracing the ancient celts, and will be named 'The Boar Hunt Banquet Hall' as the ancient celts hunted the wild boar through the forests of Eiru to feast on them on their banquet halls. We will also offer this exciting concept of a celtic banquet with a feast of a Hog - spit roast to cater for special events, weddings birthdays etc. We would like to think that one day someone would like to get mnarried here in our garden in the center of our stone circle surrounded by the love of their family and friends.
The work within the house courtyards and gardens have been a labour of love for the Zerbe family, it is a home that that they have embraced, repaired, and with help of friends thoughtfully infused with Celtic Georgian and Jacobite inspiration bringing together the periods that this house and its lands has lived through, from our gardens you can find a re-connection to your Celtic soul, here we have taken inspiration from the dolmain stones of Les Carrow a short journey from the house, and we have created our own stone circle known as the Seven Hathors, as seven is a symbolic mystical number. Huge boulders have been un-earthed from the grounds and we have used these to create our celtic garden. We have also started to create an organic garden and a herb garden.
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