Small retreat is perfect in Clonakilty oasis setting

THE best goods, in small packages: the motto comes to mind when it comes to No 4, Glebe Gardens, in a Clonakilty oasis setting.

Is oasis the right word for the setting of this one-bedroom mews-like retreat in a so-secure setting? Quite probably. Whatever it is about the soil in the former orchard and gardens of Glebe House, just off the erstwhile Emmet Square, but the landscaping put down barely over two years ago is colonising the place like crazy.

Centrepiece is a retained myrtle tree, a survivor from the previous century, and around it are eight c1,000 sq ft two-bed townhouses, plus this one one-bed. A further phase of three-beds of 1,300 sq ft homes on the overall one-acre of walled and landscaped gardens, went up for sale in late summer, via agent Kieran O’Gorman.