Cottage House is a

country house image:Blenheim - Blenheim Palace - 20210417125239.jpg, 300px, Blenheim Palace - Oxfordshire An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhou ...

in the

townland A townland (; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a traditional small land division used in Ireland and in the Western Isles of Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of medieval Gaelic origin, predating the Norman invasion, and mo ...

Clonmoyle East Clonmoyle East is a townland within both the civil parish and catholic parish of Aghabullogue, County Cork, Ireland. It is 756.05 acres in size, situate east of Aghabullogue village, and north of Coachford village. It is referred to as 'Clonmoil ...

, situated south-east of

Aghabullogue Aghabullogue or Aghabulloge () is a village and parish in the barony of Muskerry East in County Cork, Ireland. It lies around west of Cork City, south of the Boggeragh Mountains and north of the River Lee. The parish of Aghabullogue include ...

village and north of

Coachford Coachford () is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It is located on the north side of the River Lee. The village is located in the civil parish of Magourney. Coachford is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-West. Coachford owes its ...

village. The house and demesne is one of many such houses situated along the valley of the

River Lee The River Lee () is a river in Ireland. It rises in the Shehy Mountains on the western border of County Cork and flows eastwards through Cork, where it splits in two for a short distance, creating an island on which Cork's city centre is b ...

and its tributaries. Cottage House was once a Pyne family residence. In ''

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland Samuel Lewis (c. 1782 – 1865) was the editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The aim of the texts was to give in 'a condensed form', a faithful and impartial description ...

'' (1837) the entry for the parish of Aghabologue is listed as containing "numerous large and elegant houses", including "the Cottage, of J. Pyne, Esq". The tithe applotment book for the townland of Clonmoyle East records 'John Pyne, Esq.' as occupying 127 acres. The Landed Estates Database advises that Cottage House was originally a Vize residence, and later occupied by the Pyne family. Following the death of John Pyne in 1837, the property was left to his nephew, Reverend John Paul Lawless, "who took the name and arms of Pyne". According to the Ordnance Survey name book of , the townland was the property of Rev. J.L. Pyne and Molly Davis, principally being "excellent ground under cultivation", with "some bog and furze running through it". Cottage House was described as a "fine house with good offices attached", built by Rev. John Lawless Pine of Cloyne, and at the time being the residence of Richard Ellard, Esq. A "good deal" of ornamental ground was said to surround it. By the mid-nineteenth century, the Primary Valuation of Ireland (

Griffith's Valuation Griffith's Valuation was a boundary and land valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868. Griffith's background Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806–1807 valuing terrain through the examin ...

) records Rev. John Lawless Pine as immediate lessor of the property, which was then unoccupied, and valued at approximately £17. Pyne was also recorded as the occupier of approximately 1 acre of "plantation". Today it remains a private residence, and is not accessible to the public.

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Acrheritage.info - placemarks
(archived 2014) Country houses in Ireland

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