THERE isn’t a parish in the country, urban or rural, without very visible reminders of how people earned their livelihoods, conducted their lives and transported themselves in the past.

FUEL is an anagram of flue — and the house Chimneys is sorted on both scores. Called after the number of chimneys in this updated traditional west Cork residence, it is quite a spread of place to call home, as it hits the early 2011 property market.

Chimneys and walls crumbled to the ground, roads cracked in half and residents were knocked off their feet as a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked New Zealand’s South Island early today.