Stream Hill House,

Co. Cork.

Documenting our Heritage

The Stream hill estate was part of the 2500 acres rented by George Crofts from the Viscount Doneraille.

Crofts built a long, low thatched house close to the current house structure, where the Croft family continued to reside until 1850 when there was an argument between the Crofts and Lord Doneraille, resulting in the farm being sold to Edward Murphy.

Murphy built the current house in 1855 from locally quarried red sandstone with a high level of craftsmanship, outbuildings were added in 1862. Edward Murphy lived at Stream hill until his death  on 6 June 1879.

The property was then sold in the Landed Estates Courts to Langley Brasier-Creagh. Brasier-Creagh extended the house, replaced the roof, further added to the outbuildings and constructed an entrance gate.

Some years later Major Gordon Dill acquired the estate and on the death of his widow in 1957 it passed to his son Richard Dill.

The house then changed hands a number of times, was occupied in the 1980s and then abandoned.