You too can be toff at the top

THE views at Ardmore are so good, they built a Round Tower just to capitalise on them — but, then, that was in the pre-planning days.

Ardmore’s Round Tower is still very much a local landmark, even if the views beneath have since become somewhat cluttered by rafts of new housing, built with planning approval during the halcyon days of the Celtic Tiger.

A house built almost 70 years ago still stands head and shoulders above the brash new upstarts beneath, and its arrival on the property market has led to queues of viewings, says Eamonn Spratt of Spratt Property Partners in Dungarvan.