The only way is up for No 5 Clarence Terrace

Tommy Barker discovers artistic flair in the St Luke’s suburb of Cork.

THERE are townhouses, as they build them now, and there are townhouses, as they built them then. Proving that they built them better, and bigger, back then, is number 5, Clarence Terrace, in Cork’s St Luke’s Cross suburb.

The area is rich in late Georgian and Victorian homes, with terraces of considerable grandeur.