Live the high life with a house that turns heads – and cars

Tommy Barker on a house that’s head and shoulders above the rest.

THE BEST of everything seems to come with Ardfionn, a recently-built big house with a range of top brand names and appliances, as well as a thoroughly modern level of services — all wrapped up in a surprisingly traditional-looking shell.

Built only about five years ago, at Upper Rose Hill, just west of Sunday’s Well in Cork city and with Shankiel racked above it, it is a place set into what was clearly a difficult site to work with.