Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Ballygroman Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygroman Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Desertmore House (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.85331, -8.67816
- SMR number
- CO085-005003-
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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
Abandoned L-shaped house, 2-storey over basement. Entrance front (E) of 3 bays; central door, with fanlight, approached by flight of steps. Hipped roof. Stone-built farm buildings to rear. Erected as Glebe House in 1830s (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 75-6). Site of church and graveyard to N (9515).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.