House has rich and inspiring past

A FASCINATING past and a beguiling future rest with this Monatrim, Co Waterford home.

In the greater Lismore area of that scenic county area, the unusual and architect-designed bungalow is on an acre, at the watershed of two rivers, the Bride to the south and the more muscular Blackwater to the north.

Designed by Waterford architect Robert Jacob back in the early 1950s, for a master printer from London, Walter Pearce, and featuring an angled large window to the rear (like the side of a ship) for landscape views, it has had a string of interesting owners.