Jane Austen style with 21st century comforts

BILLOWING skirts and ribboned bonnets – this sublime Regency Lodge near Bandon, Co Cork, really does bring on a Jane Austen moment.

It’s a BBC drama set piece – the perfect, period property, in a perfect, wooded location and like a drama, it’s all a bit imaginary.

Because Knockmacool Lodge is only five years old and was conceived by a couple who’ve lived in, and loved, a series of period houses.