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When the Italian stuccodores Paolo and Filippo La Francini came to Ireland in 1734 their first and most important early work was for Jemmett Browne, later Archbishop of Cork. In the 1730s Dr. Browne enlarged and remodelled the original 1602 Riverstown House. The La Francinis adorned the ceiling of the dining-room with allegorical figures representing 'Time rescuing Truth from the Assaults of Discord and Envy' and also its walls with classical figures and exuberant rococco flowers and foliage....

Located in Bantry, County Cork, Bantry House is the former home of the Earls of Bantry. Egerton Shelswell-White, who is a descendant of the Earls, and his family now live here.
Bantry House and Gardens are open to the public from 17 March until 31 October in 2008. The Estate is open daily, 10 am - 6 pm.
The Armada Exhibition Centre is both educational an entertaining and tells the story of the attempted landing of Wolfe Tone and the French Armada in Bantry Bay in 1976....

During the late eighteenth century, successful Cork merchants built a string of elegant villas along the banks of the Lee Estuary. Many of these have now disappeared, but one which still survives intact is Dunkathel, alias Dunkettle, a solid neo-classical house with an idyllic parkland setting lying just below the mouth of the Glanmire River....

Blarney House is one of the most Elegant and Gracious of the Great Houses of Ireland. A family house now tastefully restored to its former glory. Built in 1874 it is beautifully situated overlooking Blarney Lake. It contains a collection of Early Furniture, Family Portraits, Tapestries and Work of Art. Conducted Tours of the House....

The ruins of a 4-storey house consisting of a central block flanked by two fortified square blocks on the east side and with another in the centre of the west side. There are some mullioned windows on the top floor on the western side, while there are well-preserved turrets on the southern side and at the north-western corner just below the parapets. The chimney stacks are well preserved. The house was built by Sir Walter Coppinger who surrendered his estates to James 1 in 1616 and had them regr...

Kinsale can easily claim its place amongst Ireland's most historic locations for this has been a centre of population, commerce, trade and fishing far beyond memory and record. In its earliest days the estuary of the Bandon River gave it great importance as the river is tidal as far as Innishannon and water transport was dominant until the 18th Century. The estuary also provided excellent anchorage for ancient shipping which went in peril of the vagaries of the weather. The town nestles betw...

The demesne of Fota, or Fota Island, contributes enormously to the beauty of the Lee Estuary whose sublimity moved Lady Chatterton to write in 1838; 'the sun always seems to shine brighter here than else where'. Fota's magnificent parkland, its gardens and splendid mansion - one of Ireland's finest regency houses - combine to create an aura of charm and serenity apparent to all who visit....

Situated on Washington Street, the Courthouse was built in 1835 and designed by George Richard Pain. The front is a broad Corinthian portico raised on a platform of eleven steps. Over the padiment is a bronze group representing Justice, supported by law and mercy, and backed by a large copper dome.
In 1891 the interior of the Court House was destroyed by fire and it was redesigned by W. H Hill who redeveloped the court house to a Rennaissance style form the previous Neo-Cas...

Bowen's Court was the home to the Irish novilist Elizabeth Bowen who came from a family of a large generation. She worte such novels as "The Litttle Girls", "The House in Paris" and many many more. She was born in 1899 and passed away in 1973....