Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Velvetstown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Velvetstown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Velvetstown House (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26301, -8.66142
- SMR number
- CO017-010----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Renovated mid-18th-century 2-storey house. Entrance front (SW) of 5 bays, central rectangular door ope with cut-limestone surround, hidden behind modern porch. Windows have 18th-century limestone moulded sills and similarly shaped lintels; cut-stone cornice at eaves level. Gable-ended with chimney stacks atop gables; attic windows in gables. Central gabled stairway projection to rear; flanked by lean-to to right and longer gabled addition to left, making overall ground plan L-shaped. Farm buildings to rear. Shell of large 2-storey brick-built house c. 250m to S, built in 1875 by Crofts but burnt in 1895 when family returned to present house (Bence-Jones 1978, 281). Private burial ground (14171) 500m to S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.