Hideaway built to boom as space shines

Tommy Barker reports Mount Merrion Avenue, Dublin

WHEN astutely bought off the plans over 20 years ago, the owner of 3 Clonfadda Wood, off Dublin’s Merrion Avenue, got the pick of the sites. She tweaked the design, then bought some extra land, so it got an extra large garden too, a labour of love to get stuck into.