In the heart of Munster

THE three pillars of any Irish village have always been the church, the creamery and the GAA pitch — and the triumvirate is still relevant today, even in a digital age.

Kilbolane House was built shortly after the war as the creamery manager’s house and is a concrete example of the level of prosperity in this area of north Cork — even before the advent of the EEC and the industrialisation of the dairy industry. Milford, Charleville, is in the heart of the Golden Vale, with some of the richest and most highly productive farmland in the country.

And as a new build, Kilbolane House was ultra modern and ultra luxurious for its time — with its range of bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs and down — plus a run of living rooms and surrounding parkland. Very grand.