Greenawn has hidden beauty in charming family home

IT JUST doesn’t photograph well: Greenawn is one of those houses that hides its light under a bushel, and its size and scale under bushes and greenery.

This large family home, on Cork’s Church Hill in Glanmire, runs to 3,600 sq ft, but short of a satellite image you won’t get to appreciate this by looking at exterior images of its split levels.

Dragging out that hoary old auctioneering chestnut, “viewing is essential to fully appreciate,” Jarlath Boyd of Hamilton Osborne King says “you really have to visit it to see just how good it all is, and how stunning the views are.” See, that’s the problem with cliches, they sometimes leave a sentence all run out of steam.