THE theme song for the 1960s TV sitcom Green Acres had as its opening line “Green Acres is the place to be. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide, Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.”

GREEN Acres is the place to be, land, spreading out so far and wide ... No, while the Green Acres name fits, we’re not in 1960s TV sitcom land’s Hooterville, but in Innishannon, west of Cork city.