Heaven-sent conversion

Tommy Barker explores a Glengarriff home which was once a church.

RENOVATING a church and turning it into a comfortable home steeped in atmosphere wasn't too hard for Catherine and Tom Bolster they'd done house and bars before, and now fancy trying their hand at something like, oh, a small hotel in France.

"We did huge work to a pub we bought before in Cobh, Scarlett O'Hara's, but sold it within two years. We realised while we loved doing the renovation work, we didn't enjoy the bar business as much," says Catherine.