PICS: Fascinating Hollyhill House near Kinsale even has a long-lost secret passage

THE mission for the purchasers of Hollyhill House near Kinsale (should they choose to accept it,) is to seek out and rediscover the long-lost secret passage under the property.

A fascinating old farmhouse, it was mostly built in the 1800s but has old stone sections which date back to the 17th Century.

It is said to have had an underground passage leading to the River Bandon, which was used to allow people to secretly attend mass in the house during the Penal Laws when mass was prohibited.