It took us four years and nearly €2 million to do that work.”Ĭork architectural firm Frank Murphy and Partners, which also worked on Castlehyde, did a thorough job, also replacing the shutters and other woodwork, and bringing the interior back to the standard of its heyday. We put on a new roof, replaced 52 windows. “The survey had said it was perfect, and it was only when we arrived and started to live here that we found the refurbishment had just been a makeover. The house, just half an hour from Cork city airport, had supposedly been refurbished, but Michael remembers discovering, once they moved in, that there were some surprises in store. Tells a similar story – looking in West Cork, but being seduced by the Blackwater Valley. Another Mitford sister, Deborah became wife to the 11th Duke of Devonshire, and so spent time downriver at Lismore. Built in the 18th century, it had been home to the usual clutch of the wealthy, including men of the church and socialite types, falling steadily into elegant disrepair.įollowing restoration, Oswold Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, lived there with his wife, Diana, one of the famous Mitford sisters. The house, which has been completely and sensitively renovated and restored by its current owners, Diane and Michael Frazer, has an intriguing history. Now Ileclash House in Fermoy, right on the banks of the Blackwater, has come to the market. There's beautiful Ballynatray, which can be hired for groups if you want to get that big house feeling without the mortgage Michael Flatley's Castlehyde, currently on sale for €20 million, and the Duke of Devonshire's Lismore Castle, which opens its gardens and gallery at this time, and that's just for starters. The Blackwater Valley is peppered with incredible houses.
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