Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Dromdihy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromdihy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dromdihy House (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.94794, -7.98998
- SMR number
- CO066-039----
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Shown on 5 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
Ruins of 2-storey house over basement; completed in 1833 by Roger Green Davis (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 134). View front (SE) of 5 bays with single-bay, flanked by single-storey ornate wings. Pedimented portico on NE elevation of NE wing, described by Glin (1988, 50; photo 53) as 'superb and very correct Doric'. Cut limestone neo-classical detail throughout. Stables to NW now converted into residential quarters.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.