Along the banks of the Blackwater, Castle Hyde near Fermoy is one of the big houses of Cork that survived both landlord decline and the big house burnings of the 1920s.
The entrance is of rose red brick while the other fronts are of cut sandstone with limestone dressings.
Constructed in the early 1770’s for the Bowen family who owned the house until it was sold by the author Elizabeth Bowen in 1959.
In 1788 Francis Bernard, the 1st Earl of Bandon demolished much of the old O’Mahony castle that previously stood on this site,
Late Georgian house with unusual double three-bay bows on the garden facade, the main facade being of 5 bays. Once owned by the controversial UK politician and founder of the British Union of Fascists,
The third Mallow Castle, and built on the site of their former stable block by by Sir Charles Denham Orlando Jephson-Norreys,
French style house constructed in the mid 1800s to designs of English architect Lewis Vulliam. The conservatory was originally constructed for the 1902 Cork Exhibition,
The architect Henry Hill worked for the local landowners, the Shuldhams, on the construction of the Church of Ireland nearby, but there is no definitive proof that he worked for them at their home or the lovely gate lodge,
In 1810 the local landowners, the Falkiner family of Annmount, planned and laid out this village,
Built to replace a Georgian house that burned down in 1902, and was rebuilt in 1902-03 to designs by Robert Shekleton Balfour of London for Lt-Col.
