Just perfect for under your Fairy tree this Christmas
The short series was largely shot around Dunmore East and other Waterford locations, and was written by top TV playwright Alan Bleasdale, whose credits include Boys from the Black Stuff, No Surrender, and GBH. Telling a story about a couple with a difficult child, it starred Julie Walters and Robert Lindsay, and family scenes were shot at Fairymount, as well as in another period home in Delgany.
In Jake’s Progress, Bleasdale’s usual dramatic stomping ground of Merseyside was replaced on the ground with Suir-side, Barrow-side, Nore-side plus the Celtic/Irish Sea and St George’s Sea as a filming location.
Unfazed by its brush with the movies, Fairymount, a family home to its current owners for a generation or so, is an end-of-year property market offering, wearing its age lightly — it was built about 1780.
Selling agent John Rohan says “it’s full of character and boasts stunning river views over the meeting point of three rivers — the Suir, and the twin rivers the Barrow and the Nore.”
The high-set venerable house with an ivy beard across part of its front facade has over 1,800 sq ft of space, plus a 300 sq ft old stone outbuilding. It’s on five sloping acres, that include woodland behind, an orchard, patio, impeccable stepped lawns with a feature cypress tree, mature shrubs, and woodland area to rear.
The long, low early Georgian farmhouse has a compact porch with pitched slate roof facing a river-viewing terrace, a sun room also protrudes off to the right, with views, there’s a hall, two reception rooms, one with a cast iron fireplace, the other with a solid fuel stove, a kitchen/dining room with Stanley range, a study, five bedrooms with one en suite, main bathroom with power shower, and a sauna.
Nearby Cheekpoint village is over six miles from Waterford city, with lovely forest walks in Faithlegg wood and views over the Suir.
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