[3] The park consists of mainly broadleaf and mixed woodland with some mature conifer stands, and parkland with some of the area underwater.

[5] Hunt was granted the land, which consisted of 380 acres (1.5 km2) originally owned by John Fitzgerald, as one of the Cromwellian plantations.

[1] The existing house dates from the early nineteenth century, rebuilt by Sir Aubrey (Hunt) de Vere, 2nd Baronet.

A century later during a Christmas party at the house, rose a cry of acute anguish and of such force that even above a storm occupants of the room heard it distinctly.

Looking out to the lake they saw a figure of a woman, redly aglow as if sheathed and point with arm outstretched, toward Curragh Chase.

It was this storm that caused a limb to crash through one of the windows, knocking over candelabra and creating a fire that destroyed the house.