Amble up Amberley Way

Location: Rochestown, Cork

THERE’S an almost surreal way to locate Amberley Way, from a huge swathe of Cork city’s eastern suburbs. If you look from the low-lying city suburbs, or the northerly hills, towards Rochestown, the singular presence of a tall water tower high on a hill shows the location of this rare property mix — and the reservoir tower sticks up on the hillside like a Google maps or online search locational pin made physical.

It is a fairly modern house name attached to a cluster of old, upgraded original farmyard structures above the crossroads at Rochestown’s Monastery Hill. It is now a hugely attractive lifestyle home mix and income earner for Munster house-hunters on the prowl for something utterly beguiling.