Delightful haven that’s as pretty as a postcard

Rose Martin is impressed with Glenn Árd, in delightful Castletownshend.

EVEN on the dreariest of days, you won’t find a more delightful setting than that of the Glenn Árd development, at Castletownshend, Co Cork.

It has the kind of pastoral position beloved of Sunday painters, postcard printers and advertising executives — soft rolling fields with the spire of St Barrahane’s church in the distance and the glimmer of the sea beyond.