Vosterburg, 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. 281. “(Leycester/LG1952); Reeves/LGI1912; Murphy/IFR) A house overlooking the Lee estuary which was originally built towards mid-C18 by Daniel Vorster, a Dutchman who settled in Cork and “educated” many of the merchants of the city in “writing, arithmetic and the most regular method of book-keeping.” As well as building the house, orster laid out a garden “with fountains, statues and canals.” Vosterburg was subsequently rebuilt, so that it is now a house of late-Georgian appearance. Of two storyes over a basement and with a Victorian dormered attic in the roof. Five bay entrance front, wide central window above doorcase with semi-circular fanlight and coupled engaged Doric columns; fanlight with curved astragals. Garden front of two bays on either side of a central curved bow. Subsequently owned by the Leycester family; in 1^st half of C19, the residence of W.M.Reeves; later, the residence of a branch of the Murphy family.”