Stone-built cottage has its own footbridge and several acres

THE house, the trees, the site and the river. Hard to sum up all the attributes of this sale at Rocklodge, Co Cork, because there’s so much in it.

Firstly, there’s a little stone cottage which was once the gate lodge to Rocklodge House, a tucked-away, period property which last changed hands 10 years ago.

This gatelodge sits on a bluff above the Cloghroe Road, in a deep and wooded valley. The River Martin flows at the other side, and right by the house a gurgling brook cuts its way through to the sandstone rock to join the Martin on its way to the Lee at Carrigrohane, a little under a mile away.