House of the week: Cashel, Tipperary

Price: €695,000

Norman roots, over 700 years of history, an apostle associated with a different sort of spirit, time spent as a Model Farm for 400 impoverished boys in Famin times and a ’secret room’ (which is still hidden) — Tipperary’s Castle Leake has it all in spades.

One of the oldest, most characterful Munster country homes to come up for sale this year, the ancient house built around an even older Norman tower even has direct access to the River Suir three miles from the heritage town of Cashel.