A home with real Hartt

Location: Castletownshend, Cork

It might be right up at the top of the steep seaside village of Castletownshend, but Hartt House still has its eye out to the ocean. The period home, Georgian in origin, has a long history of hospitality as it was, for years, a bar known as O’Mahony’s public house.

Apart from pulling and dispensing pints of porter, the O’Mahony clan were noted boat-builders, so their former property is rooted in this exceptionally pretty village’s essence — they’d wet your whistle, and float your boat.