Carrigmore, Montenotte, Cork, Co Cork  

Carrigmore, Montenotte, Cork, Co Cork  

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. 58. “(Murphy/IFR) A very handsome C19 Classical house…The residence of a branch of the Murphy family, afterwards of late J. Craig McKechnie. Now ruinous.” 

Not in National Inventory 

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.

An attractive early to mid 19C pedimented classical house with a central semi-circular Roman Ionic portico. Former seat of the Murphy family. Derelict.

Leave a comment