It lies between the villages of Kilworth, to the east and Glanworth, to the west, with the River Funshion on its southern boundary.

1669 - Sir Nicholas Purdon[7] was granted a large part of north Cork, including Ballyclough.

1734 - Ballyclough passed through several generations of the male line of the Barry family, including Redmond Barry, High Sheriff of Co. Cork in 1734, whose daughter Mary Catherine married St. Leger St. Leger, the 1st Viscount Doneraile second creation.

[3] In 1901 the Irish Census lists the house as being occupied by his mother, Anna Maria, her second husband Capt.

[11] Sometime between 1911, when the Census shows Bury-Barry, his wife Judith née Ringrose Voase, their daughter and six servants in residence,[12] and 1920, the family moved to Elvington Hall, Yorkshire and the house was used as a military garrison by the British.

The south façade of the house comprised seven bays topped with crenelations and with buttresses at either end.

In 1904 James Bury-Barry built a two-storey extension to the north side of the house with a ballroom on the ground floor and a Tudor-Revival staircase.