Old Dromore, Mallow, 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. 228. “(Deane, Muskerry, B/PB; Williamson, sub Heard/LG1969) Originally a house built ca 1750 by Sir Matthew Deane, 4^th Bt, MP. Of stucco with cut-stone facings, and with a Venetian window and door in one of its fronts. A new and larger house was built by Sir Robert Deane, 6^th Bt, ca 1781, the year in which he became 1^st Lord Muskerry; but dismantled almost immediately afterwards. According to the story, he was so horrified by its cost that he ordered it to be dismantled and the material sold after he had inhabited it for only one night. A plain square two storey late-Georgian house with a five bay front was subsequently built here. In C19, Old Dromore became the seat of the Williamson family.” 

Not in National Inventory