Old-time luxury with touch of rock ‘n’ roll

Dunowen House has a long history, rock legend links to Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Noel Redding, a recent funky makeover, and is open to guests, writes Tommy Barker

IF the walls of Dunowen House could talk, they’d sing. They’d rock and roll. And they’d have an auld lament too.

This 18th century early Georgian West Cork farmhouse is linked to ancient Kerry landlords the Sandes, and the nearby beach Sands Cove (it’s erroneously mis-spelled, as it’s a stony, sheltered but utterly picturesque little inlet) recalls their tenure when the house swelled to the considerable size and large L-shape that it is now.