Saffronhill restored to perfect health

Tommy Barker says this property may have gone to the dogs twice, but it has many features to recommend it.

A NOBLE past, a noble current use, and rescue from the vagaries of time and fire – that’s Saffronhill, in a very small nutshell.

Long associated with the Creagh and St Leger families of Doneraile, north Cork fame, it latterly went to the dogs, before it, eh, went to the dogs.