Renovated school is a class act

This impressive property in Union Hall has served as a guesthouse and a family home, writes Tommy Barker

The family here in occupation now are serial house improvers, and have left a fair few West Cork houses in finer fettle

LOTS and lots of people have dozed away the hours at The Old Schoolhouse in Union Hall. It served as a national school for 100 years, and while its early occupants nodded off inadvertently as sunlight streamed in the window, it later went to serve time as a conversion to hostel use, and later guesthouse use. Now, it’s a private home, and has possibly — most probably — the highest level of comfort since it was first built in 1885.