This odd-shaped, brick-faced and well-sited ‘60s Tivoli House, replaced a Palladian manor, which had its origins in the mid-1700s.

PROUDLY decked out in green, and set in the tiers of stacked housing rising up above the River Lee in Cork’s Tivoli, is Villa Franca.

Tommy Barker visits a charming city home that has just come on to the market on elevated Lover’s Walk.

THERE’S absolute maturity and privacy now in the generous acre of grounds at Laurel Wood House in Tivoli, Cork.