Nampara brings Mahonhattan to the skyline

CALLED after a fictional cove in Cornwall, which featured many years ago in the Poldark TV series, Nampara is a house down by the water’s edge, in Cork harbour.
Nampara brings Mahonhattan to the skyline

Given the sheer size of Cork harbour and estuary, its sweep and miles upon miles of shoreline, the surprise is how few houses relate in any way to the expanses of water: Nampara, off the Rochestown Road, does relate, though.

Looking out over a bird sanctuary, the estuary and over to Mahon Point and the lofty printing press building too, residents down this way quip that at night time it is lit up like the Manhattan skyline — though they jokingly call it Mahonhattan.

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