Draft:Lota Lodge (Glanmire)
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Lota Lodge is situated on the Lota Estate beside the Glashaboy River at Glanmire, County Cork.[1]
Two Galwey brothers built the Lodge in the 1670s for their tenant farmer Robert Rogers. For themselves they built Lotamore House and Lotabeg House, their former seat, Galwey Castle at Dundanian, having been forfeited during Cromwell’s confiscations.[2]
Architecture
[edit]The Lodge was a substantial house built in the 1670s and changed in the early 1800s, apparently by the architect Abraham Hargrave,[dubious – discuss] at the behest of John Galwey of Lota and Westcourt,[citation needed] for whom Hargrave rebuilt Lotabeg House at the same time.[3]
The Lota Lodge has the distinctive bow front typical of Hargrave,[citation needed] with conical roof and vaulted glass ceiling, making it one of Ireland’s treasures. It was partly damaged by fire in 1902 and restored by the Crawford family, who added the bas-relief.[4]
History
[edit]In the 1300s Sir John de Burgh, fourth son of Sir William Liath de Burgh, great-grandson of William de Burgh, to whom “Henry II granted vast estates in Leinster and Munster,” gave all his lands in Cork to his son Geoffrey, called Galwey.[5]
John Mor Galwey owned Lotamore in 1641,[6] and Edward Galwey bought Lotabeg, previously leased, on 11 February 1673 and built thereon a mansion.[7]
The Galweys were settled at Lota in the mid-1700s, and in 1694 Robert Rogers leased the Lota land.[8] The Rogers family lived at Lota Lodge and farmed the Lota land until 1830.[9]
William, the last of the Rogers, was born at the Lodge but did not live there; he sublet the lease of the land to John Courtney about 1830 and sold it to him in 1857.[10][failed verification]
The Galweys sold the Lota Lodge to James Smith-Barry of Marbury Hall and Fota.[11]
Smith-Barry leased Lota Lodge to various tenants until his estate sold it in 1875 to the Crawford family.[citation needed] Arthur Frederick Sharman Crawford, a member of the Crawford family and director of the Beamish and Crawford brewery,[12] was resident at Lota Lodge at the end of the 19th century.,[13] He owned and lived at the house until his death in 1946.[12]
From 1951, the Brothers of Charity used the house as a seminarian training college until, in 1963, Lota Lodge became the Vienna Woods Hotel.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lota Estate (Galwey Family)". Landed Estates Database, University of Galway. Retrieved 17 October 2025.[failed verification]
- ^ "Dundanion Castle". Castles.nl. Retrieved 17 October 2025.[failed verification]
- ^ "Lotabeg House". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 17 October 2025.[failed verification]
- ^ "Vienna Woods Hotel – History". Original Irish Hotels. Retrieved 17 October 2025.[failed verification]
- ^ "William Liath de Burgh". Wikipedia. Retrieved 17 October 2025.[better source needed]
- ^ Blackall, Henry (1969). "The Galweys of Munster" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 74: 82.
- ^ Blackall, Henry (1967). "The Galweys of Munster" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 72: 28.
- ^ Bennett, Caroline Jane Benjamina (1909). The Galweys of Lota. Dublin: Hodges & Figgis. p. 17.[failed verification]
- ^ Ffolliott, Rosemary (1967). "Rogers of Lota" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society: 75–77.[failed verification]
- ^ "Estate 2881 (Rogers of Lota)". Landed Estates Database. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
- ^ "James Smith-Barry (1793–1857)". William Grey History Blog. Retrieved 17 October 2025.[failed verification]
- ^ a b "The History of Cork's Vienna Woods Hotel". viennawoodshotel.com. Vienna Woods Hotel. Retrieved 7 November 2025.
- ^ "Lota Lodge". landedestates.ie. Retrieved 7 October 2025.
- ^ "Fitzgeralds Vienna Woods Hotel Celebrating 50 Years of Hospitality". Irish Hotels Federation. 14 June 2013.
See also
[edit]- Lotamore House (NIAH 20864018, built c.1780, extended c.1880)
- Lotabeg House (NIAH 20864011, built c.1800)
- Draft:Lota House (NIAH 20864023, built c.1765)