Secret gardens a bonus with Peacehaven purchase

KEEPING up with the neighbours can sometimes be a bit of a challenge, particularly when the house next door has a historic tower monument grafted on to it.

Peacehaven, on Tower Hill in Glounthane, just east of Cork city, has a sentinel marker next door, a tall tower (see background of photo) seen from miles around, built as a tribute to the 19th century Apostle of Temperance, Fr Theobald Mathew. The tower is privately owned, and has a large house built onto and integrated into it.

Right alongside on heavily wooded Tower Hill is the attractively-titled Peacehaven, a detached dormer home of 3,500 sq ft, on a site of an acre, with two ‘secret’ gardens fully enclosed with laurel hedging.