Size: Sq m 174 (1,850 sq ft)

Price: €435,000

A British buyer used the Christmas wind-down period to swoop on one of Munster’s best country estates, one with a trail of British blue blood — and the River Blackwater — running through it.

THE Borrowers may be coming back to Kilcoe Rectory, and in more ways than one.

“ALL along the watchtower princes kept the view while all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too”. Bob Dylan might not have had Leamcon Tower, at Knock, Schull, in mind when he wrote that song, but it kind of fits.