From grainy vision to stone-cut precision

Charming hideaway in Cappoquin belonged to Cistercian monks of Mount Mellaeray writes Trish Dromey

It’s not everyday that buyers are offered an opportunity to live in a renovated cut stone property which was built by as a grain store by Cistercian monks who fled to West Waterford after the French revolution in 1830.

Dating from the 1830s, the stone building, and its one and a quarter acre site at Affane, Cappoquin formerly belonged to Mount Melleray, which is named after the French abbey the monks were forced to leave behind.