Lotabeg

Rectangular house, 2-storey over basement, built c. 1800 to design of Abraham Hargrave (Bence-Jones 1978, 191). Entrance front (N) has two bays each side of central curved 3-bay bow, central window of which is tri-partite. Central doorway with vertical half door, narrow sidelights, flanked by Ionic columns supporting wide fanlight. Garden front (S) of 5 bays, with limestone string course above basement; house 3 bays deep. Roof hipped with 4 chimneys, 2 on central flat area. One-storey extension to W, with three long roundheaded windows facing onto terrace to S; roof gabled with cut limestone pediment to W. Bence-Jones also mentions 'impressive cantilevered staircase.....Ionic triumphal arch at entrance to demesne by George Richard Pain' (ibid.). 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