Lissan Rectory, Cookstown, County Tyrone 

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. 188. “(Staples, Bt/PB) An Italianate villa by John Nash, the only one in Ireland’ built 1807 for the Rev. J.M.Staples, whose first cousin and near neighbour, William Stewart, MP, had commissioned Nash to design Killymoon Castle. It has a round tower, chamfered columns, surmounted by a veranda of graceful Regency ironwork; and derives from a rather grander Nash villa in England, Cronkhill in Shropshire.”