Cover story: A ‘great house’ that lives up to the name

Location: Crookstown, Co Cork

THE snaking driveway says it all — the clipped beech, the cleared, but untrammelled woodland, and carefully guided, gushing brook speak of care and a not-too-small amount of investment.

In a location just a whizz from the city, on the Cork/ Macroom road, this house is set in an area of good land and old demesnes, and Warrensgrove House has both.