Retreat from the city rush in Georgian style

A handsome period home that dates from the 1820s and sits on an acre of secluded gardens is for sale just outside the picturesque village of Enniskerry, writes Conor Murphy

Enniskerry Lodge in Co Wicklow is on the market for €2.495 million

Surveying Enniskerry almost two centuries ago, the geographer Samuel Lewis provided one in a series of uniquely detailed portraits of pre-Famine Ireland. “It contains about 70 houses,” he wrote of the town, “most of which are tastefully built in the cottage ...