Mount Pleasant (formerly Curravordy), Bandon, Co Cork

Mount Pleasant (formerly Curravordy), Bandon, 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. 216. “Baldwin/LGI1958) A Georgian house consisting of a two storey block with lower wings. Entrance front with two round-headed windows on either side of the centre, lighting the man and secondary stairs. Large hall with arch opening into staircase hall; staircase with elegant ironwork balustrade. A seat of the Baldwin family by whom it was sold in C19. The property was bought ca 1949 by Mr Gerald Allen, who did not, however, restore the house, but used it to house a refrigerating plant.”   

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