Brightsfieldstown, Minane Bridge, Co Cork – demolished 1984  

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. 47. “(Roberts, Bt, of Glassenbury and Brightfieldstown/PB) A From its appearance, early or mid-C18, but altered in late C18 or beginning of C19. …The Roberts family ceased to live in the house ca mid-C19; it subsequently became the home of the MacDonald family, by whom it was sold 1958. Demolished 1984.” 

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.

p. 45. “Mid to late 18C house with an early 19C doorcase. Spacious staircase lit by a Venetian window. Former seat of the Robert family who sold it in 1853. Demolished 1984.“