Get tog value at Dunmore East's €750k Cove House

Waterford's Cove House is charming and set right by the beach. It's  where memories of ladies' bathing boxes come flooding back, writes Catherine Shanahan

Dunmore East's Cove House overlooks Ladies' Cove

A CENTURY or  so ago, when the world was still preoccupied with preserving female modesty, bathing boxes were very much in vogue.

An old black and white photograph in Waterford County Museum shows bathing boxes on the beach in Dunmore East, at Ladies Cove.