Huguenot in need of hugs

Restoring this Lissarda villa would be a labour of love, writes Rose Martin.

WITH few properties coming on the market in the weeks running up to the election, the tide is now starting to turn. It’s beginning to look like those who’ve waited up to this, have waited long enough. There could even be a flood of homes on the property ballot sheet between now and the school holidays.

And to prove a point, a very distinguished residence at Lissarda in Co Cork is a new entry at just under 1 million. De La Cour Villa, a couple of miles outside Macroom on the Kilmurray side, is a very unusual property. It was probably built between 1750 and 1760 by the De La Cour family on the site of a former, O’Mahony stronghold and the property came into the Beamish family hands through marriage.