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No trace apart from the wall and gates remain of the substantial house of O’Donovan. It is visible on the Ordnance Survey Historical map:

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1874, Death at 85 of Timothy O’Donovan, J.P., Esq, O’Donovan Cove, Durrus, West Cork, The Last Survivor of the Ancient House of O’Donovan Bawn or Clann Cahill, Justice of the Peace since 1818, and other O’Donovans of Landlord Family of Fort Lodge and Kilcrohane.

A fair amount of his original correspondence with Dr. John O’Donovan is in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin.

Evidence of Timothy O’Donovan J.P. and Alexander Evanson J.P., Durrus to Poor Law Commissioners, 1836

O’Donovan Estate, Kicrohane/Durrus, West Cork, 1752 to Sale 1868, Legal Tenure, Legal Succession in Title, Tenants 1860s, Names, Acreage, Tenure, Rent.

Inventory of plants grown by Gaelic Irish 1620 prepared by Philip O’Sullivan Bere, and early 19th century cultivation of grapes and pineapples by Timothy O’Donovan Magistrate…

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