No walking plank at Clifftop Court despite links with pirate queen

THERE’S a fascinating piece of social history attached to this new development at Garrettstown, Co Cork.

The plot on which five holiday homes have been built was the place where the pirate, Anne Bonny, was born — on the wrong side of the blanket.

The daughter of a maid and a barrister father, the young family fled to the New World, where Anne grew up in considerable comfort on a plantation in South Carolina.