Set your sights on this house
IT is easy to get your bearings to Whitepoint House, especially from the sea. The 1820s-built large home is close to the water's edge in Cobh, on Great Island in Cork, and bench marks on the front steps suggest that this house was used as a navigational marker for shipping in previous centuries, coming up-river from the sea.
Originally this house, built with Regency features and predating most of Cobh's Victorian architectural finery, would have been the centre of the Whitepoint Estate, stretching from the current Cork-Cobh rail line to the strand, in what's a little visited residential backwater off the Lower Road.
