Sky’s the limit as Liss Ard throws open its doors

The beautiful Skibbereen estate has revamped its hospitality business and is also free for walkers, writes Tommy Barker

THE gates at Liss Ard have swung open, shut and open again, down very many years — and they are about as wide open right now as they’ve ever been.

The wonderful West Cork estate, home not just to one pristine period property but to two manor homes, of very different styles and eras, is open to callers and paying guests, while its 185 acres of land, woodland, waterfalls and lakes are now free to all and sundry to wander around and to wonder at.