Coming up on its 90th birthday next year is this family home, in three generations of ownership and only now for sale for the first time ever.

This restored farmhouse called Providence Manor, is according to local legend, one of the West Cork safe houses where Michael Collins found shelter during the war of Independence.

There’s a move back to Irish shores from families who weathered the economic and employment storms abroad, in strong bases like London.

ONE careful lady owner — the term, often applied to a second-hand car sale as a sort of badge of tender, loving care, can equally, and probably even more appropriately, be applied to the Cork home called Spanish Point.