Size: 165 sq m (1,765 sq ft)

Anyone looking for an Olympic gold medal in canoe or kayak wild-river slalom would do well to cast an eye over this Kealkil, West Cork bungalow — it looks over an historic castle, river rapids and dramatic, pulse-quickening falls.

GLANMIRE, Cork €475,000

Fourteen buyers got together to negotiate a combined deal in Glengarriff, writes Tommy Barker.

Fourteen buyers got together to negotiate a combined deal in Glengarriff, writes Tommy Barker.

WEATHERING the downturn is a coastal scheme with a name like a familiar, old-school Irish essay — Cois Farraige, beside the sea.

LOTS of land options come with this architect-designed, Glengarriff, west Cork home with frontage to the Gulf Stream-warmed waters.

IT’S on the quieter, northern side of the Sheep’s Head Peninsula and for any artists/writers out there, this is the place for solitude.

ACCORDING to Carmel O’Regan of Celtic Properties, the Cois Farraige scheme at Owenahincha, Co Cork, is a smashing, niche development that’s only 200 metres from the beach.

THE seaside setting of this Glengarriff, Co Cork, house could have been custom-tailored for its owner of several decades — he was a former US Navy officer in WWII, but carved a huge half-century career and reputation as a maritime lawyer.

THE seaside setting of this Glengarriff, Co Cork, house could have been custom-tailored for its owner of several decades — he was a former US Navy officer in WWII, but carved a huge half-century career and reputation as a maritime lawyer.

THERE’s no need to go to school through the fields at Sli na Scoile — the west Cork village’s national school is just across the road, and the church is right next door to the seven-house scheme.

OLD or new? The design lines have been deliberately blurred at this west Cork home, a spot on three acres with stream and ponds, and which has Graham Norton and Christy Moore as relatively near neighbours.

AN interesting farm holding in the Mealagh Valley, near Bantry, has a bit of something for everyone.

Tommy Barker visits a uniquely-converted former hostel in Ballingeary.

THERE’s more than a touch of the Spanish property to this Ahakista house in West Cork.

A SIXTH former IAVI president, John P Younge, has joined the Real Estate Alliance - making for a heavy ‘chain gang’ presence on the week-old property alliance.