Let loose the horses
HORSES get looked after almost as well as humans at this east Cork homestead called Wakefield, built in the early 2000s, fully finished, but in almost unlived-in showhouse condition. Built to a French country house design by a couple with Carrigtwohill roots, it is a mile or so up the hills above the burgeoning east Cork village, within a walk of its new rail station.
But, it is all about flesh and blood horses here rather than the iron horses of railway locomotion: one of the owners had been a jockey, and then a horse trainer as well as a businessman, and clearly knew what he was doing when he set out this equestrian centre and family home, on about 10 acres.
