Prize house has gate lodge

ROCHESTOWN Wood House and its gate lodge, the landmark ‘roundy house,’ are up for sale this week with Malcolm Tyrrell of Cohalan Downing and Associates.

Owned at one stage by Sir Henry O’Shea, (whose name is now better known from a long-standing Cork nightclub), the main house was an older farmhouse to which two wings and a back extension were added around the turn of the century.

Despite still being rather modest on first viewing, this house comes with 5,000 square feet of space and has a land bank of 7.8 acres - and this in Rochestown.