Stone-faced home has dry, grandstand view of the turbulent Lee valley

LEFT nicely high, and relatively dry, in last weekend’s Cork flooding devastation was this Lee Valley home, at Castleinch – though it does have a grandstand view of the source of all of the recent problems.

Location is above the Inniscarra dam, at Castleinch, Ovens, on the southern, elevated valley ridge with views down on the reservoir, all looking nice and wooded and innocent for itself. Access is half a mile or so up the hill, by the former Tatler Jak’s bar, about two miles from the end of the Ballincollig bypass, so, while it is rural, it isn’t at the end of the world. Given recent flooding events, it is well placed to stay above future deluge disasters, thanks to its elevation and above-dam setting.

A new market listing with Con Nagle, of Global Properties, this is a large family home at a markedly reduced price from what it might have been expected to fetch until recently.