Vernon Mount, [Douglas, Cork] a Neoclassical suburban villa in Ireland, is arguably the finest example of this building form to survive in the country, where politically motivated destruction of country houses was once commonplace.
Vernon Mount, World Monuments Fund
Fire Crews Tackle Blaze at Vernon Mount (Irish Examiner)
Previously: Why we should save Cork’s Vernon Mount (Irish Times, April 28, 2016)
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how very fortuitous for all involved.
That building was left to rot, like so many of our fine old buildings.
An outrage, Tish, a wonderful architectural heritage left to be ploughed back into the sod.
If I remember right
And I was rared in its shadow and Motocrossers clouds….
This isn’t the first fire at Vernon Mount
Still sad tho
property developer going to profit from this??
let the big houses burn – stains of the ascendancy regime
When did you lot learn to spell and type?
Let alone express a semi-cogent thought which, to be fair, is also beyond me.
“Much loved”. My bum bum.
But was the go-karting circuit damaged?