Listen to the cuckoo up this west Cork cul-de-sac

THE cuckoo is a week late in Drimoleague, according to locals around Gurranes North where the bird is in full throat at the moment.

Up at the end of a cul-de-sac near the west Cork town is a 52-acre farm, where auctioneer Henry O’Leary was listening to the bird last week, as he walked the land. “I haven’t heard it in years,” the Property Partners agent says, “and the bird is a week late in coming, according to locals.”

He says Hill Grove House, Gurranes North, is overgrown and neglected, but still ‘gorgeous’ and could be classed as organic, making it also suitable for REPS.