Stirring fantasies of living like the quality

THERE’S nothing like a long, lingering driveway to stir fantasies of living like the quality.

Throw in 200-year-old Lebanese cedars, a tall weeping ash, gob-smacking views of water and woodland and you have some of the attributes of Killahora House, Glounthaune, on the edge of Cork city.

It isn’t often a farm manages to straddle three property brackets, and especially not in a downturn, but this is one. It has land, house and, whisper it, development potential.