VIDEO: The Mall House in Kinsale a period home of substance

Tommy Barker visits The Mall House in Kinsale and sees a masterful, modernised restoration project    

It’s six years since The Mall House last went up for sale. Back those few short years ago, this 270- year old house was unlived in, and taking it on was as brave a restoration challenge of a genuine Queen Anne-era home as a modern buyer might want for, wish for, or be able to tackle.

Writing it up post-visit back then, prior to its 2010 auction sale, writer Rose Martin described it as being “in a degraded condition,” “a beautiful money pit,” yet finished by acknowledging it as “one of the loveliest properties to come on the market in Kinsale for a while.”