Custom-built home near Bishopstown spurred on to greater things

Tommy Barker admires a warm, lavishly-proportioned custom-built home just beyond Bishopstown in Cork.

Custom-built home near Bishopstown spurred on to greater things

THE setting of this ten-year old family home is kind of a match, or a metaphor, for the young couple who built this one-off house: it’s sort of where city meets country, a bit like themselves.

He’s a native of Ballinhassig, a rural and wide-slung parish on the western fringes of Cork city that stretches for miles. She’s a suburban Bishopstown-born person, and, post marriage, was inveigled to try country living for a change.

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