A Georgian home, but not quite so old as it seems

LOOKS deceive. If Glendaragh House was a person, it would be just starting secondary school, not ending a long and fruitful life in the retirement community.

The Georgian home on 27 acres is a phoney, but a particularly fine one: it is just about 14 years old, and was given a second burst of investment five years ago to give it a real stamp of country house class inside and out. Think Aga, orchards, lawns, paddocks, sash windows and cornice work - all at the new end of the scale.

Set near Ballyanley, Inniscarra, it is a few miles upriver and inland of Cork city: think Blair’s Inn in Cloghroe as a location marker.