Seafield, Castletownshend, Co Cork

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. 255. “(Townshend/IFR; Chavasse/IFR) An irregular two storey house with shallow bows in two adjoining fronts, the nucleus of which is a Georgian house with a fanlighted doorway, built by a contractor named Bailey for himself. Enlarged mid-C19 by Judge J.F. Townshend, and a wing containing a drawing room and dining room added 1913-4 by Major Henry Chavasse, to the design of Henry Hill of Cork. Though the roof of the house, which is eaved, is level, the level of the ground floor goes down, in three stages, toward the harbour, so that the rooms get higher as the floors descend. Massive stone terrace round two sideds. Let during 1940s to Capt and Mrs F. Harrison Maynard. sold 1960.”