Innishannon, Co Cork – ‘lost’

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. 158. “Frewen/LG1965) A square two storey Georgian house with two three sided bows on its front and a castellated range at back, said to have incorporated an earlier house. The Irish home of Moreton Frewen, MP, a celebrated figure in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period; whose brilliant but impractical projects earned him the nickname of “Mortal Ruin.” Winston Churchill, who was his wife’s nephew, frequently stayed here with him when young. The house was burnt 1921.” 

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.