Horse and fishing country appeal

THE curiously-named Quitrent House was built in the Victorian period in the Georgian fashion, a trend that seems to be usual for the time.

The property was built pre-famine by the agents for the then huge Mitchelstown estate of the O’Mahonys.

They were a Catholic family who then went on to found the Woollen Mills at Blarney, now a huge retail brand owned by the Kelleher family, along with its sister chain, Meadows and Byrne.