VIDEO: Deck of Cards on Cobh's Barrack Hill is a scene stealer

Actor and drama teacher Rachel Murphy is selling up on picture-perfect ‘Deck of Cards’ terrace in Cobh, reports Tommy Barker.

There’s high drama every year on Cobh town’s vertiginous West View, or Barrack Hill, home to the so-called Deck of Cards stack of 23 period, 1850s built houses piggy-backing on one another up from the town’s Casement Square.

The steep hill, part of Cobh’s heritage tourism trails, hosts a colourful roller-ball riot of fun, an annual downhill lottery of 6,000 cascading and numbered balls which raises thousand of euros for charity, and four lucky winners get cash prices too.