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. 243. “(Johnson/LGI1912) A very attractive two storey Regency house on the edge of a cliff above Lough Mahon. Entrance front consisting of a three sided bow separated by one bay from a one bay rectangular projection framed by strip pilasters, and a single-storey bow fronted wing. Round headed windows in lower storey of main block and wing; round-headed entrance doorway, with hood moulding on female head corbesl…Garden front, facing the water, with three bay pedimented projection and three sided bow. Hall with early C19 ceiling rosette, separated by a screen of grey marble Ionic columns from an elliptical staircase hall, in which there is a slightly curving stair with an iron balustrade. Octagon room with views up and down river. Drawing room with early C19 cornice and ceiling rosette painted in the original colouring of grens, greys and reds; recess at one end with yellow scagliola columns; doors with unusual round-headed panels. Library in single-storey wing, curved wall, recessed bookcases with scroll pediments and Gothic shaped openings. Originally the seat of Johnson family; afterwards sold to the Abbott family. Subsequent owners included Col Lindsay and Mrs Doreen Walmsley. Now owned by Mrs Mary Kenneally.”
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. 242. “(Murphy/IFR) A plain early C19 house of two storeys over a basement. Entrance front with large and elaborate Victorian enclosed proch of three bays, pedimented and decorated with branching fluted pilasters, strapwork and swags. Eaved roof. Plain four bay garden front, 2 bay end. Lower two storey wing. Old gate-tower in grounds. Handsome entrance to demesne with pineapples on piers.”
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. 242. “(Hodder/IFR) An attractive late-Georgian house with a large fanlight over the entrance door and a side facing across the entrance to Cork Harbour and out to sea. Well-proportioned rooms with pleasant early C19 cornices and ceiling rosettes. Now the home of Mr and Mrs Albert F. Clark, who have made a loggia facing over the walled garden at the back of the house.
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. 241. “(Furlong, sub Hodder/IFR) A two storey Victorian Italianate house, with a note quite regular eight bay front. Windows with entablatures on console brackets in lower storey, camber-headed windows above; projecting porch, not central, with round-headed doorway and side window; bracket cornice. The seat of the Furlong family.” not in National Inventory
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. 230. “(Heard/LGI1969; Cattell, sub Mahony/IFR) A two storey eaerly C19 house in a mild Tudor-Revival style, but with a Classical portico. The seat of the Heard family. Now the home of Mr and Mrs P.A.G. Cattell.”
Palace Anne, County Cork, 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.
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. 230. “(Beamish-Bernard, sub Beamish/IFR) A very distinguished early C18 house of red brick with stone dressings, built 1714 by Arthur Bernard, whose brother, Francis, judge of common pleas, was the ancestor of the Earls of Bandon; named in honour of Arthur Bernard’s wife, Ann Power or Le Poer. …Arthur Bernard, the builder of the house, though very much a member of the ruling Protestant establishment at Bandon, was tolerant, not to say humanitarian – enough to construct a hiding-hole behind the dining room panelling in which Catholic priests who were in trouble with the authorities could be concealed….Arthur Beamish-Bernard’s nephew and heir, another Arthur, who went to America, sold the last remnants of the estate 1875, by which time the house had fallen into ruin. The walls of the centre block were still standing 1956, but were demolished soon afterwards; now only the right hand wing remains, which though dilapidated still has its roof and some of its windows.”
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.
p. 52. “…Centre block of three storeys over high basement with three curvilinear gables linked by one bay wings to two bay pavilions also with curvilinear gables. The pedimented doorcase of the central block was mid-18C. The house was faced with red brick, with cut stone dressings. Good interior with panelled rooms. Main block after standing as a ruin for many years was demolished in the late 1950s, only the left hand pavilion remains.“
The Buildings of Ireland. Cork City and County. Frank Keohane. Yale University Press: New Haven and London. 2020.
p. 21. After the Williamite wars, landowners had the confidence to invest in their property and improve their estates, building new houses and offices, and creating enclosed landscaped demesnes. Of the minor gentry, most aspired to nothing more than a house that was solidly built, symmetrical and convenient. At first, middling houses were unsophisticated in their form and planning, often only one room deep but sometimes having a return containing a staircase or service rooms, thus forming an L-plan or T-plan. Steep gable-ended roofs were almost universal, hipped roofs and the use of parapets the exception. This arrangement continued throughout the 18th century for gentry houses, and well into the C19 for larger farmhouses. Early examples include Ballinterry (Rathcormac), Velvetstown (Buttevant), Rosehill at Ballynacorra (Midleton) and Aghadoe at Killeagh.
Sometimes a double-pile plan was achieved by building a second, parallel range of rooms. In most early cases, each range had its own roof, so a pair of gables would be visible at the sides; covering both ranges [p. 22] with a single hipped roof would have stretched the abilities of most artisan builders before the later C18.
Most houses of this class are built of rubble stone, which was then roughcast; ashlar, or even squared and coursed masonry is almost never encountered other than at the largest houses, such as Doneraile Court and Newmarket Court. Similarly brick was rarely used, early exceptions beign the demolished Castle Bernard and its sister house, Palace Anne (Enniskean).
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. 228. “(De Courcy, Kingsale, B/PB) A house with a pediment and a balustraded roof crowned with a spire, built towards the end of the C17 by 23rd Lord Kingsale near the old castle of his family on the Old Head of Kinsale; a site as windswept as that of Loftus Hall, Co Wexford. The house was abandoned by the family after the death of 24th Baron 1759; it has long disappeared, though there is a ruin on the Old Hill which may possibly be a remnant of it.”
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. 228. “(Deane, Muskerry, B/PB; Williamson, sub Heard/LG1969) Originally a house built ca 1750 by Sir Matthew Deane, 4th Bt, MP. Of stucco with cut-stone facings, and with a Venetian window and door in one of its fronts. A new and larger house was built by Sir Robert Deane, 6th Bt, ca 1781, the year in which he became 1st Lord Muskerry; but dismantled almost immediately afterwards. According to the story, he was so horrified by its cost that he ordered it to be dismantled and the material sold after he had inhabited it for only one night. A plain square two storey late-Georgian house with a five bay front was subsequently built here. In C19, Old Dromore became the seat of the Williamson family.”
Old Court, Douglas, Co Cork (not Old Court Castle also known as Kanturk Castle)
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. 228. (Goold, Bt/PB; Glasgow/LG1863) A double bow-fronted Georgian house. Owned in recent years by a religious order.”
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. 227. “(Bowen-Colthurst/IFR) A two storey Georgian house with a lower castellated wing; the main block having a font of two bays on either side of a fanlighted doorway below two windows close together. The house was burnt ca 1920; it has been rebuilt as a square modern house attached to the castellated wing.”
Irish Historic Houses 