Return to grand style in this gothic pile

Rose Martin ambles around an Elizabethan-style home that comes with its very own ruins attached.

PERHAPS the most unusual estate sale in Co Cork is being handled by Sherry FitzGerald O'Donovan at the moment.

Ballygiblin House, near Cecilstown in Mallow, is a 140-acre estate with a five-bedroom residence, but it also comes with the gothic ruins of the old Ballygiblin House, which has a long association with the Wrixon-Becher family.