Just perfect for under your Fairy tree this Christmas

THE 18th century house Fairymount, in Co Waterford’s Cheekpoint had not so much a starring role as a supporting one in the 1995 TV mini-series, Jake’s Progress.

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.