WATCH: House of the week: Briar Hill, Myrtleville

CORK CITY’s coat of arms shows a ship sailing between two castles: it could now, as easily, show ships passing between the two Roches Points.

WATCH: House of the week: Briar Hill, Myrtleville

Two? Well, there’s the familiar one at the outer, eastern tip of the mouth of the harbour, with a lighthouse, and that’s the Roches Point which is that’s rightly famous, waved hello to or goodbye at by boat passengers over the centuries.

Then, there’s this second ‘Roches’ point, more properly known as Briar Hill, in a truly commanding spot above Myrtleville’s Coast Road, looking right across the harbour mouth to the lighthouse at the real Roches Point.

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