Surmount, country house in County Cork

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What is recorded here

Roofless overgrown T-shaped 2-storey house. Entrance front (S) of 7 bays, with end bay on each side carried slightly forward. Central round-headed door ope. Gable-ended with chimneys on gables. Much ruined farm buildings to rear. House demolished c. 1988 and reduced to pile of rubble.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO073-034

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