1825 – Design for Fota House, Co. Cork
Architect: William Vitruvius Morrison
An unbuilt scheme to enlarge the 18th century house at Fota.
An unbuilt scheme to enlarge the 18th century house at Fota.
The original house of the demense was destroyed in 1823 by an accidental fire,
Originally the seat of the Plunkett family,
Constructed around 1825, constructed in the Regency style, as a three-bay,
Described simply as “Purdysburn,
Unbuilt design by the Pains –
Rebuilt in 1827 on the site of an earlier house,
Designed for the Shirley family by the historian Thomas Rickman and which is his only Irish commission,
Churchill, left empty from 1918 was known to have wood-rot in 1926.
Also known as Elm Park.