Sense of style in Corran cottage

THERE’S the traditional way of doing up traditional two-up, two-down cottages, and then there’s the Corran way.

The renovators took a certain leap of confidence with this Corran townland home near the village of Leap, in West Cork: they went larger, they went modern and they went up-market.

Set a few miles inland of Leap, the three-bed home is on a site of three-quarters of an acre where slopes and contours were worked into a finished product.