Castellated country house, and scout centre, County Cavan, Ireland
Castle Saunderson
Belturbet, County Cavan, in Ireland
Castle Saunderson
Area
34 acres
Site information
Owner
Scouting Ireland (CSI)
Open to the public
Yes
Castle Saunderson (Irish: Caisleán Shandarsan) is a castle near Belturbet in County Cavan, Ireland. It was the former family seat of the Saunderson family, and is now in ruins. The Finn River flows along the north-eastern edge of the Castle Saunderson Demesne, where the river enters a narrow channel of Upper Lough Erne. The castle is about a half a mile west from Wattlebridge, a small hamlet in the south-south-east of County Fermanagh.[1][2]
The Castle Saunderson International Scouting Centre is a Scouting Ireland facility, opened in 2012 within the grounds of the castle.[3] The centre provides indoor accommodation and campsites covering 34 acres (14 ha). It is open to Scouts year round, as well as to non-Scouts for most of the year. It currently acts as a World Scouting Centre for the Scouts, alongside Cairo International Scout Centre in Egypt and others.
^Discoverer Series Sheet 27 (Edition F). Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (O.S.N.I.), Land and Property Services, Belfast, 2019.
^ Barbara Chapman, A History of Newtownbutler, p. 30. Nonsuch Publishing, Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, 2005.
^Cite error: The named reference Higgins was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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