PICS: The old cottage that changed one woman's life

Louise Sliney saw an old cottage for sale and didn’t think twice. It changed her life, writes Rose Martin

Louise Sliney has a wailing baby to thank for her own home project. Think new mother, think unsettled baby, think, ‘let’s drive him around till he falls asleep’. Plenty of back roads in the hinterland of Kinsale, (where she’s from), to lull a crying baba and by the time she and her friend, (the new mother), hit Ballinclashet, peace was dripping slow.

Which is why, when they saw an old cottage on the roadside with a for-sale sign, they chanced a resurgence of the dormant volcano, and took a look.