At this two-storey gable-ended house on the northern bank of the River Funshion in north Cork, that small sculptural flourish hints at a building assembled with some deliberate care, and possibly a degree of family pride, from materials that already carried a long history.

The house shares its general appearance with a late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century manor house visible on the opposite bank of the Funshion, suggesting both structures belong to roughly the same period and perhaps the same local building tradition. According to local information recorded by Grove White in the early twentieth century, the Condon family were responsible for its construction. What makes the building particularly interesting is that the stones and some of the oak timbers used to raise it were taken from Manning Castle, a medieval structure located nearby. This kind of architectural cannibalism was common practice in Ireland, where an older fortified tower or castle, a bawn being the walled enclosure that often accompanied such structures, would be systematically stripped once a family decided to build something more comfortable and domestic in character. The Down Survey barony map of 1655 to 1656, one of the earliest systematic cartographic records of Irish land, shows a mill on the northern bank of the Funshion in the area south of the house, likely the Manor Mill said to have stood on the southern bank. The clustering of house, mill, castle remains, and manor across both banks of the river suggests this was once a small but coherent estate landscape, most of which has since quietly dissolved into the countryside.