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The Upside Down House

The Upside
Down House

The dining room window, looking out over the table to the garden
The dining roomi
The entrance hall, looking through to the stained glass and stairs
The hallii
Bell's Field at sunset, people on the grass above the rooftops of Cork
Bell’s Fieldiii
A bedroom window looking out over the rooftops of Cork
The viewiv
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Bell's Field at sunset, people on the grass above the rooftops of Cork
iii
The entrance hall, looking through to the stained glass and stairs
ii
The dining room window, looking out over the table to the garden
i
A bedroom window looking out over the rooftops of Cork
iv

i  The dining room ii  The hall iii  Bell’s Field iv  The view

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Plan of the house

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History & lore

Built 1830s
John Butts, A View of Cork, c.1750: the city and river seen from the hilltop, with Shandon steeple on the right
John Butts, A View of Cork, c.1750 — painted from this hilltop.

Built for the officers of the barracks behind it, No. 8 looks over the whole northside. John Butts painted this view in 1750, eighty years before the house was here.

One early owner added a codicil to the deeds: if his daughter consorted with Papists, she would not inherit. The house went to a nephew instead. By 1846 Mrs Esther Colthurst lived here, with the curate of Shandon next door at No. 7 and, at No. 5, a Presbyterian minister who wrote a book blaming Ireland’s miseries on Rome. Earlier owners said these were the only houses where the sun sets on the northside.

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Guidebook

All within a walk, everything downhill
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