Roll out the Barrow

ROLLING out and along and down to the River Barrow at a wide river bend in picturesque Graiguenamanagh in Kilkenny is Brandondale House, a house with a history linked to Crowmell, and a future linked to development potential.

The large riverside period property, with eel weirs above and below its boundaries, has about 10 of its 30-plus acres zoned for residential development, which will put developer cats in among the period home birds.

An historic property, it was occupied for a while by the writer Sean O’Faoilean, who wrote the story, The Trout, based on the well under Brandondale House, current owner local man William Barron points out.