Merchant Ivory of properties

AN 18th century mill, a mill wright’s cottage an old rustic bridge, (by the mill, of course) plus a site of three quarters of an acre with a babbling brook makes this Ballyfeard house the Merchant Ivory of properties.

Except, of course, for a low-key example of box architecture at the side it could easily work as a set for a bonnets and bodice opera.

It’s idyllic, says a clearly smitten Jean Shanahan, who has put a guide price of €745,000 on this blue moon package.