Landed Estates
University of Galway

Gortahorna House

Estate(s)
Townland Barleyfield
Civil Parish Rathclarin
PLU Bandon
DED Rathclarin 12
County Cork
Barony East Carbery (East)
Description Mrs. Eliza Sealy held this property in fee at the time of Griffith's Valuation when it was valued at £32. Lewis notes it as the seat of J.M. Sealy in 1837. In 1906 it was owned by John Hungerford Sealy when buildings were valued at £8. . A nearby flour mills, named Barleyfield Mills, [W508485], was leased to William Sullivan and valued at £13. In 1942 the Irish Tourist Association Survey noted that it had bee rebuilt after being burnt but by the 1940s the roof had been removed "and the slates used for housing schemes". The house is now a ruin. The mill continued to be worked until the mid-twentieth century and the building is still extant.
Barleyfield Mill (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, www.buildingsofireland.ie)
Gortahorna House (www.kilbrittain.net)

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