Home rich in heritage

Ballinhassig, Cork €650,000

Oak floors destined to go under the tapping feet of Michael Flatley at his Castlehyde mansion have, instead, turned up on much of the 4,000 sq ft of space at this equally venerable Ballinhassig home, also with a second, Fermoy link.

Reckoned to date back to the 1700s, and later extended as the home of Lord Fermoy’s land agent (though Fermoy town is 30 miles away), this tall country home called Ragsbridge House and halfway between Cork and Kinsale was rescued from dereliction 13 years ago by enthusiastic renovators, John and Ann-Marie O’Neill and family.