Keep it country in D14

THERE’S downsizing and then there’s the kind of slaloming that sees Mrs Máire Mullarney trading down from a rambling old mansion to a one-bed apartment.

The indomitable mother of 11 and chatelaine of Mill House, a unique, Georgian property in the heart of Rathfarnham, is to move when the house on Whitechurch road goes to auction on April 9 next.

Once in the heart of the countryside, this three-storey, 3,500 square foot property has been lived in by the Mullarneys since the mid-1950’s.