No run of the mill 'Haus' in Bandon with energy bills of €15 per month

Just-built in Old Chapel, outside Bandon, this is a 'Haus' constructed to rigorous standards 

Passive House, Old Chapel, Bandon,  Pictures Janice O'Connell/F22 Photography

THERE’S an irony in the modest siting and demeanor of a just-built new home, constructed to rigorous passive home standards in Cork’s Old Chapel, on the outskirts of Bandon, in a prosperous setting which was busy back 200 years ago for its cotton mills, among other hives of industry and mill activity.

This 2021-completed home was quite precisely set on its rural site just within the town’s catchment to get views of a centuries’ old mill building remains, part of the Overton estate and Allman family’s milling dynasty which employed thousands, standing, near-skeletal, high on a hill a few fields away from this one-off, which in contrast was set most deliberately so as not to shout out its own presence.