It's the lap of luxury in a thoroughly modern Cork home

Top-class architecture and a beautiful leafy landscape have made this southside home a little Hollywood on the Lee

Crisp modern lines set against mature trees greet visitors arriving at 3, Oakwood on Cork's Maryborough Hill. Pictures John Roche

A CONTEMPORARY home as good as 3 Oakwood could grace the Hollywood Hills overlooking Los Angeles; it could as easily sit on the Côte d’Azur, or be slotted into Dublin’s Dalkey, Cork’s Kinsale, or adorn some sweet spot in the Channel Islands.

But, instead, it graces a hillside east of Cork city, overlooking Maryborough Hill and Douglas, in a setting that’s now broadly suburban.