Rising above history

ONE of the very early owners of number 8 Audley Place, on the tip top of Patrick’s Hill in Cork city, placed an interesting codicil on the deeds of the property.

Should his daughter consort with Papists, she was not to inherit the house. Bigotry skipped that particular generation and the house was inherited instead by a nephew.

Now, years from the 1830s when this house was built, the property is being passed on again, this time via the open market.