The Acre: apple of your eye

Tommy Barker views a 1930s house that was built in a former orchard.

HOUSING estates are built in varying densities on sites of different sizes, but at this Tivoli, Cork address, its six to the acre.

This row of three groups of semis, each south-facing, and called The Acre, was built in the mid-1930s in the former walled orchard of a property owned by Tivoli Spinners.