Family home that could easily break the €1 million barrier

In praise of older houses, Rose Martin extols the virtues of Rathmahon on Cork’s Castle Road a real home for generations.

OLD houses have their problems - renovation costs are likely, there’s more chance of things going wrong - but they often have something over their modern counterparts, a real personality.

Rathmahon on Castle Road Blackrock is an example. Sunny and comfortable, it already feels like home. Generations have clattered down its staircase and still do: it’s an unpretentious and unfussy house, despite its formidable size and desirable location.