Cork apartment that will remind you of the Hollywood Hills

Tommy Barker marvels at an apartment that could be more Hollywood Hills and Bel Air than near Hollyhill, Cork. 

There’s an inadvertent irony in the side-by-side gated experiences up at Lisín, at Cork’s Strawberry Hill, above Sunday’s Well. This gated development of 12 houses, built in boom times in 2005 to a five-star corporate let standard, is cheek-by-jowl with the Old City Gaol, now a very popular tourism attraction in its own right.

But while the gaol had cells galore, exercise yards and unscalable 30’-high perimeter walls, its gates were deliberately designed to keep the inmates securely inside.