35-acre bank of forestry on Ring of Kerry

If trees are the new bank, then there will surely be people lining up to get a piece of an interesting bank of forestry that has just come onto the market in the townland of Garrane, about 5km east of Portmagee, Co Kerry.

The famous village on the Iveragh Peninsula is known as the departure point for the short drive over the Maurice O’Neill Memorial Bridge to Valentia Island.

The village itself (whose name in Irish means literally “crossing point”) is named after legendary 18th-century smuggler Captain Theobald Magee, but today is more associated with tourism than the Europe-wide smuggling operation its namesake ran.