Ashbourne House, Co Cork  – direct provision  

https://www.ashbournehousehotel.ie

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 12. “(Beamish/IFR; Hallinan/ IFR) A plain 2 storey 5 bay late-Georgian house with additions in the late Victorian or Edwardian half-timbered style. Interiors of the period: fancy timber studding in the walls, oak panelling, beams and fretted ceilings. Garden with noted collection of trees and shurbs. Home of Richard Pigott Beamish, whose part in the Pike court case is recounted by Mark Bence-Jones in Twilight of the Ascendancy. Post WWI bought by Maj. T.F.D. Hallinan, who sold it ca. 1958.” 

The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020. 

p. 429. “Ashbourne House Hotel. Plain five-bay house with a hipped roof and roughcast walls. Edwardian half-timbered two storey addition at one end. Much extended following conversion to a hotel.”