Cork mansion romances the stone as it comes to market for €1.1m

Unless you’re a historian, it’s difficult to dig out the derivation of Apsley House in Ovens in Co Cork. Suffice it to say that it is likely to have been built on lands owned by Sir Richard Boyle, the Great Earl of Cork (1556-1643) who took as his first wife one Joan Apsley in 1595 when she was 17 and he 28.

Apsley was the daughter and co-heiress of English military man, Captain William Apsley ...