Crescent will leave you over the moon

Tommy Barker visits a gem in a gentle curving terrace in Cobh which boasts a sweep of scenic harbour views.

IT sounds quite a boast, but the Crescent, overlooking Cork harbour in Cobh, is one of Ireland’s most intact works of quality domestic architecture.

The fact that there are 13 houses here in this gentle curving terrace with its sweep of scenic harbour views could have been ominous for the deterioration of a 160-year old run of individually-owned large private homes: but, against the odds, the row of 13 homes is quite sublime, so beguiling it naturally features on Cobh’s tourism trail.