Hidden Tree Tops a bright home

THERE’S a back lane quaintness to this property at Sunday’s Well in Cork city and it is appropriately named Tree Tops. It’s half way up Wyse’s Hill and is a stone’s throw from the city, but you can’t see it or its neighbours.

Why? Because the hilly location means this and other Victorian properties are stowed away in clefts unseen from the road.

And the power of nature is showing – the retaining 20’-high walls are now safely shored up by City Council bracing as land slippage puts too much pressure on the old mortared sandstone.