Castle Coole
Castle Coole near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, is one of the finest neoclassical country houses in Ireland, built between 1790 and 1798 for the first Earl Belmore to designs by James Wyatt, one of the foremost architects of the period. The house is constructed of Portland stone shipped to Ireland at enormous expense, giving the gleaming white facades an exceptional quality and refinement that distinguishes it from most Irish country houses of the period. The interior contains outstanding Regency furnishings, plasterwork and decorative schemes largely intact from the early nineteenth century, creating one of the most complete examples of a Regency country house interior in the British Isles. The house is in the care of the National Trust and is open to visitors. The surrounding parkland with its extensive lake and mature trees provides an attractive setting for one of the architectural masterpieces of Georgian Ireland.