Douglas-home Igls spells out return to the boom time

It seems like it’s missing a few vowels, but this home has just about everything else, writes Tommy Barker.

You could walk to Douglas Golf Club, clubs and bag thrown over your shoulder, or mounted on a trolley or golf cart, from the front door of this expansive family home, being sold this year for its long-time owners, who are now preparing to trade down after many decades in residence.

Called Igls (and looking like it is missing a few consonants and vowels to make a proper English word of it), it shares its name with a popular Tyrol holiday destination near Innsbruck in Austria, and so possibly carries on the long and proud mid-20th Irish tradition of calling family homes after holiday, honeymoon, or pilgrimage destinations, a few decades before cheap ’n‘ easy flights made blithe and blase world citizens of us all.