House of the week

WELCOME to the former turf of former top Irish amateur jockey (and official Turf Club inspector of Courses) Bill McLernon.

Rathcormac’s Church of Ireland Rectory is steeped and steepled in horses, in several ownerships through the latter half of the 1900s, right up to today. What’s the betting the next owners will be horse mad too?

Noted jockey Bill McLernon, reckoned to have been Ireland’s best point to point and amateur jockey in the 1950s and 1960s, owned this Co Cork period home and lands and kept horses here up to about 1980, and kept his hand and hoofs in the racing game (he’s now retired) right into the 2000s as the man who called the shots on course suitability and conditions.