Mount Plunkett, Co Roscommon

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Mount Plunkett, Co Roscommon

Mount Plunkett, County Roscommon entrance front c. 1920 photograph: William English, 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.

Mark Bence-Jones. 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. 216. “A house of unusual design built 1806 by George Plunkett….Passed to the Grehan family ca 1850 and in 1876, to Robert Adamson. Laster the residence of C.E.A. Cameron, Assistant Inspector General of the RIC.  Dismantled 1946, now a ruin.”

In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland II: More Portraits of Forgotten Stately Homes. Collins Press, Cork, 2012.

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. 

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