Plenty to potter with

THERE’S plenty to potter around with at The Glebe, Kilmahon, in Shanagarry in Cork, the home of the Pearce family of craft workers and potters and set to leave family hands after half a century.

The almost cube-shaped Georgian country residence with annexe and outbuildings is where, 50 years ago, Philip Pearce started a small pottery business, picked up and expanded on by his son Stephen since the 1960s.

Steeped in East Cork history, and occupied by both Catholic and Protestant clergy as well as landowners the Power family, Shanagarry’s Glebe House has latterly played a pivotal role in the changing fortunes of this rich agricultural hinterland.