St Clare’s beauty will leave you in 7th heaven

CALLED after a contemplative order of nuns living across College Road is Cork’s St Clare’s Avenue, marking the quiet presence of the Poor Clares Monastery.

This residential road or avenue joining College Road and Glasheen Road has a mix of early 1900s house types, from detached to semis and terraces — and among the very best houses here has to be No 7 — a lucky number indeed.

It’s almost monastically modest about its treasures — from its outside, state-of-grace renovation, you’d suspect it’s pretty good anyway, but once inside, you’re into higher echelons of renovation indeed.