The sleek and simple Tipp pavilion

THE beauty of simplicity shouldn’t be overlooked — that’s the key to Keeper House, a low-slung and luxurious new build in the Mulcair valley, Co Tipperary.

A short jaunt by car from the M7 interchange at Castletroy and some country lane manoeuvring later takes you to anonymous stone gates.

Then, following a long, curving driveway through a young deciduous plantation, (all the while considering how long it takes to get a wheelie bin to the road), you come into a wide clearing.