Writer’s scene stealer

HAVING searched the entire country for an Irish home back in the mid-1990s, Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer settled happily upon the set piece that is Castlelyons House.

Writer’s scene stealer

The north Cork Georgian home had utter privacy in its ancient wooded grounds and “secret gardens”, but it also had something else – a village on its doorstep.

“You think you are out in the country, but you go out the gate and just up the street, there’s a bar, small shop and all the other services,” he says of the house’s quite special, edge-of-village setting.

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