Lota Park, Glanmire, 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. 191. “(Murphy/IFR; Beamish/IFR; Gubbins/LG1937 supp; Mahony/IFR) A two storey house built 1801 by John Power. Three bay entrance front; Wyatt windows in outer bays; fanlighted doorway with Ionic columns. Garden front overlooking Lee estuary. Afterwards owned by James Roche, who added single-storey wings, one of them containing a ballroom, which in recent years was decorated in Louis Quinze style; the other originally containing a library. Afterwards owned by John Molony and then by William Ware; bought ca 1837 by J.J. Murphy, whose body was shipped back to Ireland inside an upright piano after his death in Italy 1851, because the Neopolitan sailers refused to carry his coffin, on the grounds that it would bring them bad luck. Lota Park was afterwards the home of Lt-Col N.L. Beamish, an officer in the Hanoverian Service and a Kinght of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, who died 1872. In the early years of the present century, it was the home of Joseph Gubbins, a well-known yachtsman. More recently, it was the home of Mrs Francis Mahony. Now a Cheshire Home.”