House of the week

NORTH Cork’s medieval town of Mitchelstown was cleared and laid out afresh between the 1770s and the 1820s, when Kings Square arose, accordingly, in some splendour.

House of the week

More than two centuries later, the classic Georgian square with its large residences retains its dignity and gravitas.

A large portion of the square is taken up by Kingston College (the ‘college’ name is misleading, it had no education links, and King was the family name of the Earls of Kingston). Houses were built here for elderly members of the Church of Ireland community, and much building renewal went on here in the early 2000s.

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