A very private property

THE Georgian villa Mount Patrick wears its years well — almost two centuries of age.

The simply conceived and symmetrical villa or lodge is on its own five acres of woodland grounds, at Kilcoolishal, near Glanmire five miles east of Cork city, less than a mile from the Lee tunnel.

It hits the property market with Lisneys carrying an air of privacy and exclusivity, a feeling reinforced by its guide price of €2 million which, coincidentally is just the sort of price paid last week at private auction for a Georgian farmhouse Westview, at Farran. Westview House, on 100 acres, was sold at private auction by Joe McCarthy of Irish and European, for just over €2 million to a buyer who had sold land near Ballincollig for development.