Room to roam for the price of city flat

YOU see why Cork is the biggest country in Ireland when you wend your way to Killasseragh.

Where? Killasseragh lies amid the plains and rich, rolling tillage lands of East Cork, where the views are so sweeping you suspect half of the land has not been settled or occupied.

The sense that there is land to spare is not accurate: farms sizes are huge, and the hinterland is discretely prosperous and best known to the horse and hunting set.