WEEKEND BREAK: To the manor born at Kilmokea Country Manor

IF HUMANS were programmed to hibernate, I’d happily hole up in Kilmokea Country Manor until my fat stores ran out.

It’s easy to see why its owners quit a hectic London social scene for this glorious rural idyll in Great Island, Campile, Co Wexford.

Having long harboured a dream of owning such a property and opening up its delights to visitors, Mark and Emma Hewlett bought the 18th century Georgian rectory and its seven acres of heritage gardens in the late 1990s.