Lohort Castle, Cecilstown, 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. 190. “(Perceval, Egmont, E/PB; O’Brien, Bt/PB) “An exceptionally large C15 tower house of the MacCarthys, damaged in the Cromwellian period when it was bombared and captured by Sir Hardress Waller, restored ca 1750 by 2nd Earl of Egmont, who made several good rooms in it; one of them a library, another an armoury, containing enough weapons to equip 100 horse. 2nd Earl was presumably also responsible for the layout of the demesne, in which the castle, wiht its surrounding moat and star-shaped Vaubanesque outworks, was ringed with woods planted in the form of an octagon, from which straight avenues were aligned on it like the spokes of a whieel. The castle was remodelled 1876, when an outer bawn wall was biult and also a castellated gatehouse; which though detached from the castle and some way from it, contained additional bedroom accommodation. Lohort was subsequently occupied by Sir Timothy O’Brien, 3rd Bt, the cricketer…The house was gutted by fire 1920.“
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.
Not in National Inventory
In Blake, Tarquin. Abandoned Mansions of Ireland II Collins Press, Cork, 2012.
http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/11/lohort-castle.html
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