House of the week

This family home, on a great acre scanning the valley folds along the Lee and the over the reservoir, is pure Cork — but its last two owners came here from overseas.

Now, as the extended and upgraded Drom Siobha comes up for sale as neighbouring fields of barley are practically harvest-ready, it’s an open book as to where its next fortunate occupants will spring from, upriver, downriver, EMC, or the US.

The current owners — a lawyer and an IT software programmer — and their appreciative young family — moved here after six years in sunniest and humid Florida.