Set sail with riverside home

WELL, the word ‘cottage’ in the name is definitely a misnomer – Corbally Cottage is a big property offering, where you can draw a boat up to your garden boundary.

Set at a pronounced bend in the River Shannon at the end of Mill Road, by the Limerick-Clare border and a 10-minute drive from Limerick city centre, this is a 1977-built, Tudor-style family home in award-winning riverside gardens. In fact, its current owners, who re-ordered the gardens when they bought the property 12 or so years ago, won third place in the All Ireland Gardens competition in the year 2000.

The gardens, on 1.6 acres, have always been kept up, and are a mix of century-plus old hardwoods, including yew, oak, beech, chestnut etc, mix with shrubs, perennials, seasonally flowering bulbs, etc.