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The scene at Fortwilliam House, beside Clayton Hotel Silver Springs, this morning.
Picture: Jim Coughlan
Fortwilliam House gutted AN ICONIC 19th-century Cork house was gutted by fire this morning. Firefighters spent hours battling flames which had engulfed Fortwilliam House, on the grounds of the Clayton Hotel Silver Springs.
WEATHER TONIGHT L: 5ºC
Partly to mostly cloudy
27 firefighters battle 19th-century Georgian house blaze
■ Audrey Ellard Walsh The dramatic fire broke out in the early hours of the morning, with emergency services called to the scene shortly after 4am. Eight units of the Cork City Fire Brigade, including
one water tanker and two platforms, responded to the blaze which ripped through the beautiful early nineteenth-century Georgian house, cur-
rently used by the hotel for storage. “The building was well alight when support arrived at 4.20am,” Fire Officer Gerry Myers said.
Twenty-seven firefighters worked to bring the fire under control, the cause of which is still unconfirmed. ■ Continued on Page 2.
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