Cast off in front of this Georgian lodge that’s in need of restoration

PREPARE to be enchanted by Cregg Olympry, an early Georgian lodge dwelling on the River Blackwater in Cork, with dancer and impresario Michael Flatley a nearby river neighbour at Castle Hyde.

But, in eyeing up this beguiling looking place, prepare also to face into a full programme of renovation and restoration.

Up for sale by public auction on August 20, the larger than it looks property near Fermoy in Co Cork has nearly 900 metres of river frontage to the famous angling river, fishing rights, 38 acres of land and up to seven bedrooms under its old slate roof.