WATCH: One to worship at terrific Ballintemple

On Cork’s Blackrock Road, Sunlea has roots in 1920s, but as Tommy Barker discovers, it’s bang up to date in style

Apart from a setting right in the heart of Ballintemple village on Cork’s Blackrock Road, one of the loveliest of the features of Sunlea greets you at its unusual, keyholed shaped front entrance porch.

It’s the opening itself, a generous wide circle to the top, in an arching, gauged brick, dropping down to a worn-smooth limestone stone threshold.