Sale ends link with old city family

THE family name of one of Cork’s much-reduced Jewish community is recalled in a suburban house they lived in from the mid-1900s.

Elyan, in Ballincurrig Park in Douglas, is a 1939-build home which bears the name of the Elyan family whose name has now, otherwise, died out in Cork following the current generation’s decision to live in London.

And, a link with the Jewish Sabbath rituals is also signalled clearly here in Elyan: the kitchen has a panel of bells - more typically seen in large period homes - to request service from a number of rooms in the house, despite its relatively humble semi-d status. Strict observance of the Saturday Sabbath meant the family wasn’t able to perform any tasks on this day, and so even putting coal on the fire had to be done by another person, in this case a live-in house maid.