Ahanesk, Midleton, Co Cork
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. 3. “(Jackson/LGI1894; Sadlier-Jackson, sub Trench/IFR; Lomer, sub Stafford-King-Harman, Bt/PB) A plain rambling predominantly C19 house, with a rectangular oriel on one wing; overlooking a backwater of Cork Harbour. Large, characteristically Edwardian hall, with a low, heavily embossed ceiling and a straight enclosed staircase rising from one side of it down which, in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period, the dashing Mrs Sadlier-Jackson (the first lady in Cork to ride astride) is said to have been in the habit of sliding on a tray, wearing pink tights, to entertain her guests. Other reception rooms with higher ceilings. For some years after WWII, Ahanest was the home of Major and Mrs Robert Lomer.”
The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020.
p. 517. “Plain mid-C19. Three-bay front with single-storey bow-fronted wings. Gables roofs with deep eaves.”
Detached L-plan five-bay two- and single-storey house, dated 1819, comprising three-bay two-storey central block with flat-roofed front porch, flanked by single-bay single-storey wings with canted bay windows to front (south) elevation, with six-bay two-storey return to rear (north) elevation, having recent single-storey flat-roofed extension to east elevation of return. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs, rendered chimneystacks, those to return having ceramic pots. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings, with timber sliding sash windows to return and replacement windows and door to front elevation. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard to rear. House retains interior features. Gate lodge to entrance. Square-profile piers and replacement double-leaf gates.
Notable Palladian inspired symmetrical arrangement, similar to other large houses in the area such as Ballyannan House and Ballintubbrid Lodge. Although it has lost its timber sash windows to the front elevation, it retains many timber sash windows to the rear return. Used as a hotel in the early twentieth century, much interior plasterwork dating to this period. Replaced earlier Ahanisk House built to the east in the eighteenth century, former residence of Saint John Jeffreys, one time governor of Cork City.
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A house on the shore of Cork Harbour occupied by William Oliver Jackson at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and held by him in fee. It was valued at £24. In 1906 a mansion house in the townland of Ballyvodock East was valued at £98. The house passed by marriage to the Sadlier Jackson family and in the mid 20th century became the home of the Lomers.
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Midleton. 19th century. Associated names Jackson; Sadleir-Jackson. sub Trench; Lomer; subStafford-King-Harman. Mrs. Sadleir-Jackson and rode astride who was the first person to ride astride in Ireland lived here.
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