Make a pitch for a ‘Croker’ of your own

A LOT of house, a lot of history (try 250 years!), and a good modicum of land comes with Lisnabrin house at Curraghglass, near Tallow in west Waterford.

And, while you’ll get the 1760s-built, three-storey, 9,000 sq ft ‘real deal’ Georgian residence on 25 acres for around its €750,000 guide price, unfortunately the spending won’t stop there: you’ll need to have quite a few hundred thousand euro more to bring it back to shining elegance.

It was the seat of the Croker family from Cromwellian times, where a blow-in Colonel Croker married the Catholic daughter of the Coppinger family who’d been in residence and who’d tended him, ensuring harmony and a continuation of the blood line as well.