Byblox, Doneraile, Co Cork – demolished  

Byblox, Doneraile, 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. 51. “(Morrough-Bernard /IRF; Preece, sub Farquhar, Bt/PB) A three storey bow ended house which appears to have been built ca 1793 by Robert Fennell Crone…In recent years the home of Mr and Mrs J.R. Preece; and then of Mr and Mrs Terence Millin. Now demolished.” 

Robert Fennell Crone (1758-1812), was son of John Crone (1725-1790).

John Crone (1722 – 1790), Byblox, Doneraile, Co. Cork, son of Daniel Crone & his wife Alpha, nee Johnson. He married Frances Fennell, and was father of Alpha, wife of Col. William Odell (1752-1831). Courtesy Fonsie Mealy July 2018.

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.

“A large plain three storey late 18C house. In 1814 the seat of John Crone. Demolished.”

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