A touch of class by the sea

THE courtyard of Ballygeaneymore House was once graced by the daily arrival of the mistress’s Rolls pulling up to the modest sized period home, greeted, no doubt, by a butler.

But today one doesn’t need to be in the same wealth league to occupy this coastal pad.

Owned in the early 1900s by a niece of the niece of Henry Ford, mass motoring’s pioneer, the property in a glen by the sea near Ballycotton in East Cork is for sale with a €525,000 price guide with estate agent Michael H Daniels.