There’s only a handful of modern homes at Clonakilty’s elegant Emmet Square, an award-winning Georgian timepiece, one which has been gently updated by Cork County Council’s architects’ department. 

The River Bandon-fronting home, Ardnacarrig, is coming up on its 200th birthday, and rarely, if ever, in its long and venerable life, has it been so quite so elegant, and quite so comfortable.