Cut a former sawmill into your own shape

WHAT goes around comes around, and soon the sound of saws and hammers will be heard once more at this spot on the Convamore Estate in Co Cork’s Ballyhooley.

The former sawmill building on the River Blackwater estate is for sale, and adventurous house hunters are expected to want to get their saw-teeth into it as a project on a Grand Designs theme. It could make a spectacular one-off, or even a couple of linked properties.

The original Convamore House, was built in the early 1800s for the Earl of Listowel, who had extensive lands here, but burned down in 1921. The construction date of this workmanlike stone building is put at 1838, according to estate agent Michael H Daniels, who guides this market arrival at about €350,000.