Dannanstown House, Shanballymore, Co Cork for sale March 2025 courtesy Michael H. Daniels estate agent.

€985,000 P51 V022 5 beds2 baths430 m²

A delightful Georgian house dated c. 1835 set in wonderful grounds and commanding a superb position overlooking the river Awbeg. Mitchelstown 18 km | Fermoy 18 km | Mallow 19 km | Cork 44 km | M8 Motorway 18 km Cork Airport 50 minutes | Shannon Airport 80 minutes | Dublin Airport 160 minutes (All distances and times approximate) Entrance Hall | Double Drawing Room | Dining Room | Kitchen | Cloaks First Floor with Landing | Five Bedrooms | Two Bathrooms Lower Ground floor with Staff Apartment | Laundry Entrance with Stone Piers & Iron Gates | Lime Avenue Secondary Drive with Double Coach House | Three Stables | Feed/Tack Room Landscaped Grounds with Mature Trees | Woods | River Walks Weir and Mill Race | Lawn with Ha-Ha | Railed Paddock | Vegetable Garden & Orchard Former Cannery Building | Trout Fishing Circa 400 m River Frontage Wonderful Views over river Awbeg and surrounding Countryside FOR SALE FREEHOLD BY PRIVATE TREATY IN ALL ABOUT 8.46 HECTARES (20.90 ACRES)

DANNANSTOWN HOUSE Dannanstown House is a fine example of a mid C19th Georgian house, retaining much of its original form and structure, and enjoying a delightful position overlooking the river Awbeg. The three-bay house was built c.1835 by Edward Furlong, manager of the adjacent large former flour mill dated c.1820. The most attractive house has a wide-eaved hipped roof and two tall chimney stacks and is arranged over a two-storey over basement plan. The well-proportioned accommodation is bright and sunny with the principle rooms double-aspect and includes three reception rooms, five bedrooms and two bathrooms with a staff apartment to the lower ground floor. The property has been well maintained with the impressive accommodation extending to some 431 sq metres (4640 sq ft.) which is presented in excellent order throughout.

There are many original features including large sash windows with shutters, marble fireplaces together with ceiling cornicing, door architraves and polished pine floors.

Dannanstown House enjoys a superb position with fine open aspects from its elevated site and south-west facing orientation and with the river and mill race directly below. The wonderful gardens and wooded grounds offer much seclusion and privacy with shrub borders and lawns surrounding the house. A lime avenue leads to a large gravel forecourt with a secondary drive to the rear accessing the coach house and stables. There are woods to the eastern boundary along the road and to the south along the slope down to the river. A railed paddock is located to the south along with vegetable garden, orchard and the former cannery building. There are walks along the river and through the woods and fields together with a delightful weir with trout fishing and swimming in summer. The total acreage extends to circa 8.46 hectares (20.90 acres) with circa 400 metres of river frontage. COUNTY CORK Dannanstown House is situated close to the village of Shanballymore, a small village set equidistant between the market towns of Fermoy, Mitchelstown and Mallow. The area is known for its tranquil rich farmland and wooded river valleys, with tributaries flowing south to the renowned river Blackwater, which runs over 100 miles west to east across Munster. There are varied and extensive leisure activities with walking locally to the Ballyhoura Hills and Doneraile Court close by and with excellent fishing to the river Blackwater and Awbeg. Golf is well catered for with courses locally at Fermoy and Mitchelstown and Mallow with championship courses at Fota Island and Cork Golf Club. The property is well placed for access to Cork city and International Airport in under one hour with Shannon International Airport offering flights to the US some 80 minutes distant

ACCOMMODATION Ground Floor Approached via a gravel forecourt, a solid timber door with fanlight over, gives access to the full length entrance hall, with a turned staircase lit by a feature arched window and polished pine floor. Situated off the hall are the bright and impressive double drawing room with original recessed sliding timber doors and the dining room, both double aspect rooms. The drawing room offers wonderful aspects to the south and west, overlooking the river, weir and open farmland beyond. The reception rooms have marble fireplaces together with ceiling cornicing and polished pine floors. The kitchen/breakfast room is also located on this floor together with cloakroom/WC.

First Floor The first floor landing is lined with book-shelving and there are five bedrooms, all with lovely views over the grounds or the river, together with three bathrooms.

Lower Ground Floor The lower ground floor is accessed by a staircase from the entrance hall together with its own external access to the rear of the house. The accommodation comprises of staff apartment with thee bedrooms, two bathrooms and laundry.

OUTSIDE To the rear of the house a secondary drive with lawn verges runs north to the public road passing a range of traditional whitewashed stone outbuildings comprising a lofted coach house/garage/ workshop, together with three stables and feed/tack room and covered open stores. The former cannery building is located off the front drive.

GARDENS & GROUNDS The gardens and grounds are a particular feature of the property with the house surrounded by landscaped grounds with mature trees interspersed and ringing the property. There is intensive planting directly around the house and on the walk down to the river and mill ruin together with along the drives. To the south are vegetable and fruit garden with soft fruit cages together with plum and apple orchard.

SERVICES Mains electricity and water. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating. BER CERTIFICATION INFORMATION BER Number 116460304 BER Rating D1 (246.48 kWh/m2/yr) BER Expiry Date 20/05/2033 IMPORTANT NOTICE These particulars are for guidance only and are prepared in good faith to give a fair description of the property but do not constitute part of an offer or contract. Any description or information given should not be relied on as a statement of fact. Some images of the property may have been taken from outside the curtillage. Neither Michael H. Daniels & Co, nor any employee has any authority to give or make any representation or warranty whatsoever in relation to the property. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate only.

BER Details 

BER: D1 BER No.116460304 Energy Performance Indicator:246.48 kWh/m²/yr

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Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former mill manager’s house, built c. 1835, now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and painted rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills. Round-headed window opening to rear having spoked fanlight to nine-over-nine pane timber sliding sash window. Round-headed entrance doorway with decorative spoked fanlight and timber panelled door with flanking timber Doric-style engaged columns with plinth blocks. Five-bay two-storey outbuilding to north, having pitched slate roof, painted roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with timber fittings and segmental-arched vehicular entrances with timber battened double-leaf doors. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to road entrance, with decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates set into rendered walls terminating in pair of piers. Remains of flour mill to north.

Appraisal

Dannanstown House, built by Edward Furlong, manager of the adjacent flour mill, retains much of its original form and structure. Set in a mature landscape the house is enlivened by features such as its fenestration rhythm, and materials including sash windows and slate roof. The elegant doorcase is especially interesting and is a finely executed original feature of the building. The house forms part of a group of related structures including the flour mill and solidly built outbuilding.

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Detached double-pile four-bay six-storey flour mill, built c. 1820, now in disuse and roofless. Concrete-walled single-bay single-storey extension to west elevation. Chimneystack to south gable of west elevation. Coursed rubble limestone masonry walls with camber-arched window and door openings having roughly dressed voussoirs and some openings having brick voussoirs. Mill race and wheel pit to site, with remains of cast-iron machinery and metal sluice.

Appraisal

This mill, built by Richard Welstead and Quayle, and subsequently leased by Edward Furlong, though now ruinous, is an important physical reminder of the industrial and social history of the area. The mill forms part of a small industrial complex with associated structures such as the mill manager’s house and outbuildings. The survival of the mill race and wheel pit is important as they provided the power sources used to drive the mill. The double gabled roofline presents a strong and attractive silhouette in the landscape.