Lough Key Forest Park

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Lough Key Forest Park is an 800 hectare park on the southern shore of Lough Key, 4km east of Boyle, County Roscommon and 13km west of Carrick-on-Shannon in the Republic of Ireland. Formerly part of the Rockingham estate, it is open to the public.

The estate was taken over by the State in the 1950s and Rockingham house burned down in a fire started by an electrical fault in 1957. The house had been designed by John Nash. After the ruins of the house were demolished in 1971, the Moylurg viewing tower was built on the site in 1973^[1]. The servant's tunnels still exist, with one entrance near the tower.