Corkbeg, Whitegate, 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. 92. “(Penrose-Fitzgerald, sub Uniacke/IFR) A square two storey early to mid-C19 house on an island just inside the entrance to Cork Harbour joined to the mainland by a causeway; built to replace an earlier house by the water’s edge…sold ca 1945 to Capt R.F.U. Penrose-Fitzgerald, and then completely demolished to make way for an oil refinery.”

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 two storey early 19C house. Very fine top-lit stone staircase with brass balusters. In 1814 the seat of Robert Fitzgerald [1751-1814]. Demolished to make way for Whitegate refinery.“