Tivoli, Cork, Co Cork – a ruin  

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. 273. “Murphy/IFR) A mid to late-C18 house in the Palladian manner, probably designed under the influence of Davis Duckart… built by James Morrison, a rich Cork merchant and Mayor of Cork, who named it Tivoli because of its steep and romantically wooded grounds going down to the Lee estuary, which he adorned with a reproduction of the Temple of Vesta, as well as with a larger and more elaborate temple in the Gothic taste. Tivoli was eventually acquired by James Morrison’s grandson, James Morgan, a member of another wealthy Cork merchant family, who bought it from a cousin who was also his sister-in-law. Some time ca 1820s the house was largely gutted by fire caused by James Morgan’s children playing with fireworks. Demolished a few years ago and the follies have long since disappeared. ..” 

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.

p. 53. “Large late 18C house built for James Morrison which consisted of centre block joined to pedimented pavilions by straight arcaded links. The house was damaged by fire in the 1820s and rebuilt, but was demolished in recent years.”