WATCH: East Cork property far greater than the sum of its parts

This house of two halves keeps what’s old old, and what’s new is new, but combined make a home a delight to own, writes Tommy Barker.

With roots back to the early 1700s, you just know there’s going to be something special about this hidden East Cork home called Memberton, near the harbour and Whitegate village on a lovely acre amid affluent farmland.

But, when you get up close and personal with it, and go around the back, you most likely will change your mind, or at least your perception. If the front is good — and, it is — the back is knock-out superb.