Converted schoolhouse has bags of history and is full of potential

ALL roads used to lead to the old school house on south Cork’s coastline.

A half‘n’half property up for sale here, less than a half a mile from the beach and the water’s edge, is steeped in local history. One section was built in 1790, as a chapel for the hinterland, and adjoins an old two-storey farmhouse, and in subsequent years the chapel switched services and became a boys’ school.

When first built, a network of paths linked it to Myrtleville, Fountainstown, Carrigaline and Crosshaven, and its first priest, Fr Callanan, used to come here on horseback from Carrigaline for Sunday and Holy Day masses.