Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Country house
Sunville, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sunville
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sunville (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.83824, -8.06051
- SMR number
- CO089-032----
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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
Partially collapsed early 18th-century house assocaited with the Penn family. Rear and part of side wall survive. Rear (N) is 2-storey with gable-ended projections making plan of house U-shaped. Remains of weatherslating on surviving walls. Photograph of entrance front (S) (Anon. 1946) shows it as 5-bay, 1-storey over basemant: central rectangular door. Windows slim, 8-light sash with shallow reveals; tall round-headed window in central baseless pediment. Weatherslated front except for basemant. Steeply pitched gabled roof with chimneys on gables. A stone fireplace from here was removed to Ballymaloe House (CO089-004001-). Walled garden survives with brick-lined N wall.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.