Go Forth, live the life

Tommy Barker says Mitchelsfort House, near Watergrasshill was done in true farmhouse style.

SOMETHINGS in life never change: death, taxes and tolls, being a few irritating constants. A modern take on the strong Irish farmhouse — and deeply rooted to its locale — is Mitchelsfort House, just off the Cork to Dublin road near Watergrasshill and nicely on the Cork city side of the M8 motorway toll booth.

Curiously, and coincidentally, old incongruous roadside stone pillars near Mitchelsfort and Fellfort date back to the 1700s, when the quiet country lane here was the main Cork-Dublin carriageway, and was two incarnations/previous road routes ago home to a toll house also.