Gallan Mor Boutique B&B
T
he house which was five years ago an old cottage and due to the
dedicated and hard working couple’s immense work since 2010,
it is the beautiful place it is today.
Mr and Mrs Bourke moved from London where they reared
their three daughters to Ireland where they have made West
Cork their home.
“We had actually come over to view something else but it was a complete
disaster so we went to see a local estate agent in Bantry with whom I had
developed quite a good rapport with,’’ explained Mrs Bourke.
“Just about every property in the office was sold as the Celtic Tiger was
still roaring at that time and right in the corner of the estate agent’s office
was a flyer/ advertisement for our cottage which Noel had dismissed having
seen it on the internet in the UK because it only had one acre of land, which
we are very thankful for now- landscaping an acre of a garden is hard work!
The cottage was about 200 years old and in a very bad state.
“The purchase of the house was completed in January 2007. We were
commuting back and forth between the UK and we came back to Cork at
every possible opportunity and holidays that we had and mostly tried to tame
the land which was unbelievably overgrown and at the same time