Cork harbour lodge home is postcard pretty with lots of charm

Time to drop anchor at Cork harbour’s shipshape Roscuan, says Tommy Barker. Pictures: Eddie O’Hare

GREAT Island and the town of Cobh in Cork harbour have some of Cork’s best examples of period homes, especially Victorian ones, many of them associated with the one-time powerful and ocean-conquering British naval presence on what’s now Haulbowline Island, a harbour home to the more reduced-in-scale Irish navy.