Lesser Spotted Ulster Series 14 Episode 19: Castlecaulfield

Lesser Spotted Ulster Series 14 Episode 19: Castlecaulfield

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Details

Location

Castlecaulfield

Year

2012

Date

Production 17/12/2012

Length

22min 36sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam SP

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the BFI Heritage 2022 project.

Courtesy

British Film Institute, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Joe visits Castlecaulfield in County Tyrone. He tells the history of the area and how lands were granted to Toby Caulfield in the early Seventeenth Century before meeting two archaeologists, Maybelline Gormley and Dr Colm Donnelly, in the ruins of Castle Culfild, which gives the village its name. They show him drawings of what it would have looked like and how it was actually a manor house and not a castle at all.

He then moves to Parkanaur House, walking around the aboretum and observing the herd of white fallow deer, the only such example in Ireland. Alec Bartley exlains their history. Local historian, Jonathan Gray, informs Joe of the history of Parkanaur House and how the owners saw a responsibility to their tenants and the local populace. Wilfred Mitchell then takes Joe inside the house to recount how the house was bought by a local man who made his fortune who then handed it to his friend for him to use the house for training for adults with cerebral palsy, which his son suffered from. Bernie McKenna and Harold Armstrong talk in the walled garden about the local community's use of the grounds for their annual horticultural show.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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