Culdaff House, Carndonagh, Co Donegal  

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. 285. “(Young/LGI1958) A three storey five bay gable-ended house built 1779 for George Young. Top storey treated as an attic, above the cornice. Elegant surround to central window, with keystone and scrolls, combined with pedimented Tuscan tripartite doorcase. Quoins; high roof; parapet with die and similar raised sections at either end. Service wing running back from centre of house. The house was burnt 1922; there is an account of the burning in Twilight of the Ascendancy by Mark Bence-Jones. It was rebuilt 1926 and greatly reduced in size 1950, when the main block was demolished, leaving only the service wing, at one end of which the original doorcase was re-erected on a projecting porch.”  

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