Níl neart go cur le chéile: How eviction was foiled

Niall Murray on the story of a rural community’s victory

It might well make a fine location for a meditation centre or artists’ retreat, but this rural riverside home was the scene of historic ructions during an attempted eviction in the dawn of the 20th century.

The babbling of the nearby River Lee makes Cois Laoi the obvious choice of name for the six-bedroom property near Ballingeary in the mid-Cork Múscraí Gaeltacht.