MANY people recycle waste and turn lights out to help save the planet – others like the owners of Tountinna Cottage near Ballina go the whole hog and set about rehabilitating and rewilding almost two acres of overgrown fields. Since moving to Ireland in 2019 to settle on the Tipperary hillside, Clare, a yoga teacher … [Read more…]
THERE’S 200 years of built history with the remarkable site of Cork’s Bunnyconnellan – but, what now of ‘Bunny’s’ future? What started in the 1820s as a small cottage over a small cliff became a tenacious bar, hotel, and restaurant, clinging to an ocean-fronting site like a barnacle, battered by storms like Ophelia, surviving boom … [Read more…]
The attractions of this mid-terrace two-bed house 31 Kingsland Parade include its Victorian redbrick charm and a fashionable Portobello address. “The location — close to the Grand Canal in the heart of the fashionable Portobello district — is a huge draw. It’s within walking distance of St Stephen’s Green and Grafton Street while Camden Street … [Read more…]
WHAT does it mean to be part of the daily soap opera of a bumper-size family? For the parent, there are a couple of crucial ground rules: meal planning to avoid dining chaos, bathroom rosters to avoid fraught shower queues, tacit agreements about privacy and downtime and compromise. No-one could ever claim that it was … [Read more…]
WAS Newtown Lodge conceived as an elegant hideaway to conceal an illicit affair? That’s the more colourful version of how the house came about, as a grand gesture to keep a mistress happy. Less intriguing is the possibility that it was built for the son of landed gentry, or merely as the gate lodge to … [Read more…]
FIRST off, it was a bit of a gamble and a bet. Then, it got a great deal better. And, now it’s the very best …. Bright interiors That’s the running order of a series of visits to south Cork’s Annefield House by the Irish Examiner’s Property & Home over some of its more recent … [Read more…]