Lanes family's storied history shines through Aherla property

Built in 1920, Ash House was later bought by the acclaimed Lane family, writes Tommy Barker.   

Ash House near Aherla, west of Cork City and halfway out to Macroom, has history, and none of it is more colourful than the stories its owner TJ Lane might tell, of farming and animal rearing and husbandry that has changed utterly in just a generation.

Dating to 1920, Ash House was built at a time when many Irish houses in the countryside were being burned down, and was one of two quite substantial houses built either side of the road into Aherla from the N20 for farming landowners.