Come to pay homage at the druid’s altar at Glandore, West Cork

This farmhouse cluster tucked away in an ancient and impressive corner of West Cork could become a stand-out home, writes Tommy Barker.  

There’s something appropriately megalithic about this impressive farm house and courtyard cluster renovation — it pays homage to stone and masonry, appropriately given its proximity to one of Ireland’s most visited megalithic stone circles, Drombeg, or the Druid’s Altar, near Glandore.

The word ‘megalithic’ refers to structures made of large stones, and there are indeed immense stones used in the reconstruction of this 19th farmstead, featuring in lintels over doorways and in chimneys, some tonnes in weight, literally painstaking to have placed in situ.