Manch House, Ballineen, 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. 220. “(Conner/IFR) A late-Georgian house built 1826 by Daniel Conner to the design of James and George Richard Pain; consisting of a main block of two storeys with a three storey tower at one corner. Both the tower and the main block have eaved roofs; the tower has a window flanked by sidelights in its top and bottom storeys, with a single window in the middle storey. The house was gutted by fire 1963, but afterwards rebuilt.” 

Not in national inventory The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020. 
p. 228. Built for Daniel Connor c. 1824 to designs by George R. Pain, in a Claudian Italianate manner akin to Nash’s villa at Cronkill, Shropshire. The builder was Jeremiah Calnan. Asymmetrical two-storey entrance front with regular sash windows, an enclosed porch of sandstone ashlar (formerly clad with trellis) and a three-storey corner tower with tripartite windows on alternating storeys. South or view front of three bays to one side of the tower. The rendered walls are deeply incised to resemble ashlar. Hipped roofs with Tudor-style brick chimneys. Geometric stair rising around three sides of teh entrance hall. Two drawing rooms fill the view front. Dining room with a sideboard recess framed by Ionic pilasters. Lower service wing.