A period home of note at a scorching price

A brave buyer prepared for a challenge will love Carrig House, Tommy Barker reports

WHAT a difference a century or two — and a fire — makes. Coming up on its 200th anniversary, Cork’s Carrig House is/was a period home of note, as well as having reported links to Sarah Curran, the secret lover of Robert Emmet, who fled to Cork’s Woodhill house nearby on Lover’s Walk after the United Irishman’s arrest in 1803.

Ironically carrying a preservation order as a protected structure, Carrig House — which has been owned by CIE since the 1990s — was very badly damaged by a fire in 2002 — in fact, its condition inside is so poor that any engineers going in to survey it now for prospective buyers will have to sign an indemnity form, at CIE’s request.