Although we never met Frances, her communications were both timely and friendly throughout. Her cottage is in a sublime part of County Cork and within easy reach of the tourist hotspots like Kinsale, Clonakilty and Cork City, itself.
Unfortunately this is where the postives for this listing end. Upon arriving we noticed that the cottage had problems with damp which were only partially remedied with the heating fixed the following day. This rendered 2 out of 3 bedrooms unusable and led to my wife and daughter choosing to use the sofa for the duration of the stay. The general cleanliness of the cottage was well below our expectations and was evident that it hadn't received a deep clean before our arrival. Can these issues be easily remedied? I suspect so; unfortunately it wasn't done in time for our first visit to Cork