Something old becomes something new
Owned since 2003 by a couple with strong architecture and interior architecture credentials, it is a reworked house possibly as old as 15th and 16th centuries in part, brought bang up to date thanks to a modern makeover that draws in light, seals in heat, and splashes colour and pizzazz about with abandon. It works.
It’s part – and one of the few surviving bits – of a cluster of old dwellings associated with Kinsale’s 15th century Carmelite Abbey, and pillaged in the 1540s by Henry V11’s Supression of the Monasteries Act.
