VIDEO & PICS: Learning curve by way of extension in Cork

An old Cork farmhouse has been renovated and enhanced by its appreciative owners — it’s breathtaking, writes Tommy Barker. 

AFTER a month of floods in Ireland, and the wettest, boggiest Christmas on record, it’s perhaps appropriate that boat-building techniques were applied to the construction of one of the most individual of Irish house extensions, a hideaway home which has just sailed through the December deluge and emerged bone dry.

Think, in fact, of an upturned West of Ireland lath and canvas currach, with a twist and a turn, as an out-of the blue and coincidental comparison.