Hollymount House: ideal for artistic inspiration

Tommy Barker finds an artist’s ‘quarters’ hidden in a large period house.

A NOVEL, affordable slice of period property comes in the shape of No 4, Hollymount House — you’re getting one quarter of a large, imposing, mid-1800s home for the price of an apartment.

No 4, home to high sheriffs and to a titled artist, Lady Kate Dobbin, is now the home of another artist, Nuala O’Donovan, architect husband Kevin Busby and daughter, Niamh.