Southern comfort by the riverside

Tommy Barker visits a home with an age-old air of grace and gentility.

IT is semi-detached and dates to the 1830s, but little else was done by halves at 36 Sunday's Well Road in Cork.

Few Irish cities can offer a residential setting like this, south-facing, on what is virtually an escarpment, with a half acre of terraced gardens and lawns running down to a river, all within a short walk (or paddle) of a city centre.