All decked out in beautiful Brideweir

Tommy Barker visits a spectacular Georgian property that sits on 20 acres and includes a tennis court, stables and private stretch of river.

IT is not so much escaping the rat-race, more a matter of putting distance between it and you, and that is what's drawing the early interest to Brideweir.

The Georgian home, a former rectory on 20 acres, hit the market publicly last weekend and inquiries so far are being drawn out of Cork city from those prepared to commute the 24 miles to and fro, for the sake of bucolic tranquility.