VIDEO: Privacy, peace and quiet just an hour from Cork at Kilcolman Rectory

Mary Rose Daly visits a pristine period property at Kilcolman, West Cork, which comes with three cottages.

Kilcolman is one of those out of the way places that can be found anywhere in Ireland — places away from the main tourist drag where the main business of life continues.

This rural backwater is an area of fine farmland surrounded by ancient estate walls — a witness to the quality of its green pastures and its value to whichever baronetcy is in charge.