"What has to be one of the most hotly anticipated new-homes schemes since the demise of the Celtic Tiger has finally launched in Blackrock village in Cork. Blackrock House, a landmark Georgian building and former Ursuline convent, has been brilliantly restored into 27 luxury apartments and penthouses....Blackrock is believed to be the oldest girls secondary school in Ireland – the nuns resident there since 1820, after it was built in the late 1700s" Irish Times