Moore Park, Kilworth, Co Cork   – ‘lost’ 

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Moore Park, Kilworth, Co Cork   – ‘lost’ 

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. 211. “(Moore, sub Perceval-Maxwell/IFR; Holroyd-Smyth.IFR) A large and plain Georgian house… seat of the Earls Mount Cashell; the wife of 2nd Earl was the friend of Shelley. Sold ca 1903 by Lady Harriette Holroyd-Smyth, daughter of 5th Earl, to the British War Office; burnt 1908” 

Portrait of Stephen Moore, 1st Earl of Mountcashell (d. c. 1790) by George Engleheart courtesy of Christie’s auction.
Irish School, 19th Century (after the original portrait) of Stephen James Moore (1792-1883) 3rd Earl Mount Cashell 1792-1883, copied in 1861, courtesy of Adam’s 6 Oct 2009, provenance Ballynatray House.
Charles William Moore 5th Earl Mount Cashell by James Butler Brenan, courtesy of Adam’s auction 6 Oct 2009.
Charlotte Mary Smyth with a Landscape View of Ballynatray by James Butler Brenan courtesy of Adam’s 6 Oct 2009, provenance Ballynatray House. She married Charles William Moore 5th Earl of Mountcashell.
Portrait Of Richard Charles Moore-Smyth (b.1959) of Ballynatray, Lord Kilworth as a Little Boy by James Butler Brenan RHA (1825-1889) courtesy of Adam’s 6 Oct 2009. He was a son of the 5th Earl of Mountcashell.

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 three storey plain late Georgian house with flanking two storey wings which may be later. Former seat of the Earls of Mount Cashel. Burnt in 1908.“

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