Mount Desert, Cork, 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.   

“(Dunscombe/LGI1912) A two storey seven bay early C18 house with slightly projection end-bays, extended in the late-Georgian period by the addition of two storey wings running from the front of the house to the back, with forward facing ends of two bays. The wings are of the same height as the centre, but of different fenestration; havin a higher lower storey than that in the centre of the house and a correspondingly lower one above. Fine early C19 entrance gateway; rusticated stone piers wiht pineapples and urns, elaborate wrought-iron gates incorporating two pike-heads used by the insurgents 1798.  Now an institution.” 

Not in national inventory