Qualla: Aghavrin House https://qualla.com/aghavrin-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/aghavrin-house-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Aghavrin House https://qualla.com/aghavrin-house Aghavrin House: Introduction https://qualla.com/aghavrin-house/ Photo credit Corkonian2013, CC BY-SA 3.0. Drive northwest out of Coachford village in mid-Cork, follow the lane for about three miles through dairy country, and a quiet Georgian house emerges from a screen of trees. Aghavrin House does not announce itself. It sits low to its small demesne, five bays wide, two storeys over a basement, with the kind of restrained proportions that mark a builder who had money but not so much money that he needed to shout about it. The house was raised around 1810. The view is over the valley of the River Lee, where the better land of mid-Cork drained from the hills toward the sea, and where the Anglo-Irish Big Houses sited themselves with one eye on the soil and the other on each other.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/aghavrin-house-wp/gc1x-aghavrin-house-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aghavrin House: Symmetry and Limestone https://qualla.com/aghavrin-house/ Photo credit Corkonian2013, CC BY-SA 3.0. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage logs the details with quiet approval. Symmetrical chimneystacks bracket the roofline. Tall windows pull light deep into the rooms. The front door sits beneath a centralised arched doorcase, approached by a limestone perron, a cerem...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/aghavrin-house-wp/gc1x-aghavrin-house-symmetry-and-limestone.mp3 0:06 2 full Aghavrin House: The Crookes and the Blockade https://qualla.com/aghavrin-house/ Photo credit Corkonian2013, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Crookes built Aghavrin House and lived in it for generations. The tithe applotment book for the parish of Aghabullogue records Thomas Crook Esquire occupying around 130 acres in the early 19th century. Lewis named him as Captain T. E. Crooke, a hint that the family carried a ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/aghavrin-house-wp/gc1x-aghavrin-house-the-crookes-and-the-blockade.mp3 0:06 3 full Aghavrin House: The Uninvited Guests https://qualla.com/aghavrin-house/ Photo credit Corkonian2013, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Irish Tourist Association surveyed the country in 1944 and confirmed Aghavrin House as the residence of Mrs Scott, born Crooke, whose family had built the place. The survey carries one quiet line: during the War of Independence, IRA members billeted themselves on the premises...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/1/x/aghavrin-house-wp/gc1x-aghavrin-house-the-uninvited-guests.mp3 0:06 4 full Aghavrin House: Brigadier and Private Residence https://qualla.com/aghavrin-house/ Photo credit Corkonian2013, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the twentieth century, Aghavrin House passed to Brigadier Michael John Cahill, who held the Order of the British Empire and died in 1968. He lies in Christchurch graveyard in nearby Coachford, beside a small Church of Ireland parish where the Crooke names still appear in the r...

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