Ideal riverside setting for country-set Holmlea

ABSOLUTE rarity — you’ll hardly get the chance again to build such a country-set house so close to one of the country’s fastest-growing towns.

Holmlea is built on a precious bit of riverside land, by the River Lee as it starts to flow by Ballincollig: it is close to the river, and has little else bar views of the Lee and green hillsides on either side in this niche valley setting.

Just to the east is the wonderful amenity of the Ballincollig Regional Park, westwards is a woods-fringed lane, about as countryish as you could ask, and just northwards is the arched Inniscarra Bridge, leading towards the old graveyard and the timepiece Cyclists’ Rest pub.