Grand home, great price

WELCOME to period home lite, and history heavy. Reduced in size, this North Cork house up for sale has historical resonances as far away as Down Under.

The ancestral Ballyclough home of the Bury/Barry family, near Kilworth off the main Cork to Dublin road, has links to local High Sherriffs and local big wigs. But most famous of all was a son, Redmond Barry, who went on to a position of power, influence and infamy in Australia he was the judge who sentenced the legendary Ned Kelly to hang.

The story of bushranger Ned Kelly, a national hero in Australia, was vividly brought to life in the moving The True History of the Kelly Gang which won its author, Peter Carey, a Booker prize.