Ormeau, County Down – demolished
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. 229. “(Chicheseter, Donegall, M/PB) A rambling Tudor-Revival house by William Vitruvius Morrison in the south-eastern outskirts of Belfast…The seat of 2nd and 3rd Marquesses of Donegall; the original seat of their family, Belfast Castle, having been destroyed by fire 1708 and not rebuilt. 3rd Marquess found Ormeau inconvenient and badly constructed, and abandoned it towards the end of 1860s in favour of the new Belfast castle.”