Settle down in an affordable Lodge

THE Big House, where they once filmed Molly Keane’s big-house novel, Good Behaviour, is Coolmore, in Currabinny, Co Cork.

Now vacated, this prominent property overlooking the Owenabue estuary has a circle of cottages at its main entrance.

The Coolmore Lodges are cute, neo-Gothic artisan dwellings and are now in private ownership and fully restored. Number 2 is on the market at the moment with Marshs and at a guide price of €190,000 - 195,000 slots into the affordable level.