Birchfield, Liscannor, Co Clare – ‘lost’ 

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Birchfield, Liscannor, Co Clare – ‘lost’ 

Birchfield, County Clare entrance front, Collection of Mrs Grania Weir. 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.

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. 41. “An early C19 castellated house of two storeys. Symmetrical front; slender round turrets at sides; battlemented parapet, porch. Now a ruin. The embattled stable and outbuildings survive. Built by Cornelius O’Brien, MP, who was responsible for O’Brien’s lookout tower on the Cliffs of Moher nearby. A monument surmounted by an urn to his memory, with a lengthy inscription stands on the road to the north of the house.” 

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.

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