Upper Forest, country house in County Cork

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What is recorded here

Rectangular 2-storey house of early/mid-19th-century appearance. Entrance front (NE) of 5 bays; central door with engaged Corinthian columns supporting fanlight. Central rectangular 1st-floor window with Neo-Perpendicular tracery. Side elevations 2 bays deep. Central shallow projection to rear with large round-headed window. Hipped roof with two off-centre chimneys. Forest House, shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map c. 700m to NNW, no longer survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO072-056

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Picture notes

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