Lishin’s a place apart

GONE for the full five star standard is Lishin — a product where the word ‘apartment’ seems too insubstantial a description.

Not quite mews though it has that feel nor are maisonette or duplex descriptions apt because of the single floor layout; it's a really special niche scheme in salubrious Sunday's Well/Shanakiel in Cork city.

Following the trend towards 'gated' living quarters, Lisin is almost in a world of its own, built in the part-quarried grounds of an old Strawberry Hill stone-built house, butting up against the bulwark of 30' high sandstone walls of the old city gaol to the east now a significant tourism attraction.