Rockgrove, Glounthaune, 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. 243. “(Dring/IFR) A three storey house of mid to late-C18 appearance. Five bay front with Venetian window above tripartite fanlighted doorcase with two Doric columns and central baseless pediment. The seat of the Dring family, who sold it early in the present century. Having been in poor repair for many years, it has recently been restored.” 

not in national inventory 

The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020. 

p. 429. Rock Grove House. Of c. 1780. A big three-storey, five-bay house on a basement. Central bay articulated in a typical mid-Georgian way, with a stone tripartite doorcase approached by a perron, and a first-floor Venetian window. Rendered facades with sill courses and straight stucco quoins. Two-storey curved bows to the sides. Two-storey, two-bay wings, set back. Square entrance hall with a wide arch through to a decent staircase, rising in three flights around a wide well, with turned balusters and carved tread-ends. The archway and ground floor interiors date from alterations in the 1820s-30s. Elegant Lodge, attributed to J.B. Keane, c. 1825, a near-replica of one at Mount Richard, Co Tipperary. Cruciform plan with a hipped roof and lower wings. Central recessed widow framed by panelled piers surmounted by wreaths.”