Trafalgar House, Montenotte, 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. 276. “A house of two storeys over basement built early c19 by an admirer of Nelson, who as well as naming it after the great naval victory, had a magnificent marble chimneypiece made for the principal reception room decorated with reliefs of Nelson’s head, HMS Victory and Britannia. The house was refaced in mid-Victorian period and a porch with Romanesque columns added at one end. Five bay front with triangular and segmental pediments on console brackets over windows; roof on modillion cornice. Graceful curving staircase with thin turned balusters. In 1837, the residence of T. Lyons, in the present century, of Rt Hon Sir Stanley Harrington, who built a pleasant bow-ended conservatory at one end of the house as a 21^st birthday present for one of his daughters. After being sold by the Harrisons, the house suffered various vicissitudes, in which the Nelson chimneypiece was most unfortunately destroyed. It has now been admirably restored as the offices of Henley & Kavanagh, chartered quantity surveyors.”