A home with all its original features

THE building boom went south in the Sixties and Seventies in Cork city, which left the old northern suburbs slightly out of favour.

Big old houses weren’t the choice of the wall-to-wall carpet generation, and only those with serious money took on the period properties forsaken by the Merchant Princes in Montenotte.

Thirty years later it’s a different story: now the high ground of Tivoli and Montenotte is being slowly and discreetly colonised by a different type of build – the ace, modern structures that proclaim a new breed of owner, a new kind of wealth.