About Us
Just beside Mallow, on the Cork to Dublin Railway line, and easily accessible from Cork, Limerick and Killarney, lies Longueville House Hotel.
Longueville is a Georgian 20-bedroom country house offering a very warm welcome, with open log fires, comfortable bedrooms with modern bathrooms.
It’s a place of history, yet Longueville has moved with the times. Maintaining and modernising the house has been a labour of love for third-generation owners William O’Callaghan and his wife Aisling, your hosts.
Beyond the farm, on our 500-acre wooded estate and gardens, you’ll spot duck, pheasant and hens, maybe even rare native red squirrels, badgers and songbirds.
Longueville is the perfect combination − a place to enjoy nature by day, then dress for gourmet dinner by night.
Social & Architectural History
Longueville’s beautiful view of the Blackwater Valley belies a turbulent history. The house was built in 1720 by the Longfield family, who always maintained they were of French extraction and not Cromwellians.
Proprietor William O’Callaghan is a descendant of original owner Donough O'Callagahan. He fought beside the Catholics after the collapse of the 1641 Rebellion and forfeited the land to Cromwell. At this time, probably when Richard Longfield was created Baron Longueville in 1795, the family changed the name to Longueville.
Richard was later rewarded with a Viscountcy, probably receiving a large sum of money as compensation for losing his Parliamentary seat. He’s believed to have used it to add two wings, stone parapets and a pillared porch.
Longueville is typically late Georgian, with ornate Italian-designed ceilings, marble dining-room mantelpiece featuring a relief of Neptune in his chariot, rare, inlaid mahogany doors, and an unusual, full-height staircase.
On the East side, you’ll find a fine Victorian conservatory of curved ironwork added in 1866 by Richard Turner, the greatest ironmaster and designer of glasshouses of the Victorian era.
This is how Longueville is today − back in the hands of the O'Callaghan clan whose forebears were originally deprived of it by Cromwell in 1650.
Longueville comes complete with tree plantations that resemble the battle lines at Waterloo – French on one side, English on the other. Which side has the healthier trees? You decide.
