Impeccable home manors

IF you are not to the Manor born by birth, fear not: you can always buy your way to the good life – and Limerick’s Crecora might be a place to start.

Similar to Adare and a few other choice mid-west hot spots, Crecora is one of those locations embraced during the heady days of the property boom, yielding up its prime land for huge new homes.

And one of the hugest just might be the mannered and manored Somerton House, built less than a decade ago, but immediately aged and settled into its grounds - thanks to the not inconsiderable sums spent on landscaping and planting of already mature trees.