Perfect if you’d fancy a brush with river bank life

THERE’s a nautical touch to a house on Mallow’s chic Navigation Road — maybe its proximity to the River Blackwater inspired a boating theme.

New to the market, but old in style, is Twigfield, just on the edge of Mallow in North Cork, on the road from the roundabout to the racecourse, within a couple of minutes’ walk of the town itself and its railway station.

A canal formerly ran behind this road, along the inch stretch of the river, ferrying coal and other goods, and Twigfield backs onto this old waterways stretch and the house got its reportedly got its name from got trees harvested for twigs for making brushes.