This photo of Mount Leader is from around 1909. More recent photos are below. The photo is a zoomed capture from a photo in the Lawrence Collection.
This 2015 photo by Bob Empiro is taken from a similar location
Abandoned Ireland published 27 photos of the details and the inside of the house a number of years ago (possibly 2008). The floors had fallen in already at that stage. See the photos here.
photo from 2018 is here. The roof has collapsed further 🙁 [i+]
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The original photo is on held by the National Library of Ireland [image 1] [image 2] , and also on Flickr (with notes) (i+)
The same Lawrence photo, but this time colourised by Old Ireland in Colour (i+):
Mount Leader
Millstreet, Co. Cork
c. 1865-1914
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Source: https://t.co/RzrBV2qq5R @NLIreland NLI Ref: L_ROY_07960#DeOldify pic.twitter.com/IHinv64ste
— Old Ireland in Colour (@irelandincolour) April 28, 2020
So sad to see. My great grandparents were born there.
My daughter and I visited Mount Leader in 1997. The roof was still on the house and on the stables and other outbuildings. There were sheep in the pastures.
How is the land used now? Did it become an industrial park?
Coincidentally just been reading about a Victorian divorce scandal involving the owners of the house in the late 1880s and resulted in a court case in 1890.
Thanks for reminding me, that’s the Duncan Divorce case. I have lots of notes on that from a while back, and will put a article up on it soon.