Historic home tempting

Drumcora dates back to early 1800s. Now its guide price has been cut to €495,000, writes Tommy Barker

THERE’S been some illustrious local professional and business names associated with Drumcora — so, who’ll be next? The distinctive Georgian, slate-hung and double-bow-fronted house on Cork city’s Blackrock Road most recently served as the sports and social club of the Dunlop rubber company, but it its earliest days it was lived in by the noted architect Sir Thomas Deane. Deane had bought it in 1823 from the estate of a bankrupt, for £5,000, and he called it Herculaneum.

It went through several changes of name, and family ownerships, owned by a Captain Sherlock, who sold it to the Mahony family of Blarney textiles fame, and it ended the 1800s owned by wine and grocery wholesaler Dominic J Daly.