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Vienna Woods Glanmire Hotel was originally built by Davis Ducart in 1765 as a Regency design and it began its days as Lota Lodge on a large parcel of land surrounding Lota Beg. Following a great fire in 1905, Sharmon Crawford rebuilt the house.
Sharmon was the nephew of William Heratio Crawford who was famous in Cork and who has given his name to many of the city's institutions including the Crawford Art Gallery and the Crawford College of Art. These were the Crawford's of famous Cork brewers Beamish & Crawford trading in the city since 1792. Following Crawford's reign, Lota lodge was purchased by the brothers of Charity in 1964 and was where they trained Seminarians for 13 years. In 1964 the old house was turned into a hotel by Joan Shubuek.
Having spent a number of years living in Austria the new owner thought the similarities between the area and Vienna were uncanny so she renamed the house "Vienna Woods Hotel". The Fitzgerald family and Michael Magner took over as owners of this hotel in Glanmire Cork in 2006 and since then have restored it to it's formal splendor and transformed it into a luxurious 50 bed roomed hotel in Cork, with extensive Conference and Banqueting Facilities and 8, 4 bedroom holiday villas.
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