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.