Thatch joins the Chase

YOU can’t see The Oaks for the trees at Limerick’s Curragh Chase woods.

The large thatched house, built five years ago, is on four hideaway acres in the amenity woodland park, the one-time estate home to the 18th century poet Aubrey de Vere.

A stone wall and electronic entrance gates along the forest road conceals the 3,000 sq ft romantically styled home, and the mature and more recent planting on the four acres gives further considerable screening.