Five-bed Victorian in city’s desirable Newtown Road cared for by one family since the 1970s, says Trish Dromey

Jeremy Williams in his masterful Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland refers to the ‘Lhasa-like’ tiered effect created by Robert Ashlin’s Good Shepherd Convent and other institutions located on the prominent Cork City hillside.

EVEN driving down this country’s rural roads, much of Ireland is hidden, more of it is simply overlooked, abandoned, or ignored. And, some of it is making its way back – as can be seen in a day in the wandering company of someone like the multi-faceted George Gossip.

HISTORY has its own values — and it can also underpin property worth, as in the case of evocative Dunboy Castle in West Cork.