[2] It was complete by the time of the publication of Sir William Petty's county map, Hiberniae Delineatio, in 1685 and was enhanced by a clock in around 1750.

[3] After it became dilapidated, George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton invited proposals for the rebuilding of the structure in the early 1780s.

[4] The new structure was designed by John Morrison in the Italianate style, built in rough limestone and was completed in 1789.

[7] Soldiers from the 14th Regiment of Foot were billeted in the building,[8] in the aftermath of the Fenian Rising in East Cork which began in Midleton on Skellig Night in March 1867.

An extensive programme of refurbishment works to restore the fabric of the building to its original condition was completed in 2008.