Ashgrove, Cobh, Co Cork – demolished
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. 13. “(Beamish/IFR) A plain three storey late Georgian house built for Councillor Franklin by Abraham Hargrave, overlooking the water between Great Island and the mainland… now a ruin. Old keep by entrance gate.”
No longer exists.
Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988.