TWO miles up the Bandon river from Kinsale in Co Cork is a renovated Georgian home, Sleepy Hollow, complete with access to a tidal estuary beach.

Tommy Barker looks at an exceptional property in a rare location.

YOU couldn’t grow trees like these in a lifetime, says the international selling agent for one of the most exceptional slices of Gulf Stream and west Cork coastline, some 96 acres, five houses – one as large as 10,000 sq ft – and a golf course.