Lisnagar, or Lisnegar, Rathcormack, 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. 187. “(Barry, sub Bury-Barry/LGI1958; Tonson, Riversdale, B/DEP; Stawell/LGI1912; Lubbock, sub Avebury, B.PB1970; Hallinan/IFR; Meade/LG1972; Gubbins/LG1937supp) An early C18 house of the branch of the Barry family whose head was styled M’Adam Barry; enlarged and remodelled in the Tudor-Gothic style early C19 by William Tonson, 2nd Lord Riversdale. Gables with finals, two story battlemented porch with pnnacles; three sided bows with wooden mullions. At one end of the house is a taller block, also in the Tudor Gothic style, was added. The interior of the original part of the house contains some C18 panellilng. On the death of the 3rd and last Lord Riversdale 1861, Lisnegar passed to his nephew, W.T.J. Stawell,who assumed the additional surname of Riversdale. After being sold by the Alcock-Stawell-riversdale family in the present century, the house was reduced in size by the removal of the taller block. In the years following the end of WWII, Lisnegar was the home of M.G. Lubbock. Subsequently the home of T.E. Hallinan; after that, of Capt John Meade; now of Mrs Hogan, nee Maureen Gubbins.”
The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020.
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