Olde worlde charmer

DON’T call it old fashioned, call it Olde Worlde: that’s the polite way of describing the charms of the Old(e) Coach House, above the River Lee and Lee Road in Cork.

The quaint-looking cottage is up at the top of Hollymount, one third of the way out west from Wellington Bridge and Sunday’s Well, heading towards the Angler’s Rest and Inniscarra.

The hillside setting is home to a couple of dozen post-war bungalows and houses, as well as the period Hollymount House, one-time home to a city sherriff (a new-build home at the bottom of the hill, the bright yellow and distinctively stylish house Solbackca, sold recently for just over €500,000.