It's not only the streets, the back roads and the boreens of Schull which will be teeming with sporting activity this day next week – so too will be the churning waters of the harbour.

WEST Cork’s Rossmore area is no stranger to drama — after all, for the last 58 years Rossmore has hosted its own annual highly-regarded, amatuer (but no less competitive) West Cork Drama Festival, complete with local community/arts hall with hydraulic stage, and a wine bar, and where the festival run for 2019 just finished up earlier this month.

Tommy Barker looks at a two-storey terraced home in Courtmacsherry

Mature gardens, a decked viewing terrace half way down sloping landscaped grounds, woodland and a stream at the boundary add to the pleasures of West Cork’s Ardaravan House.

Estate agent Andy Donoghue of Hodnett Forde guides No 25 at €275,000 and says it has a range of extras which make it stand out as impressive.

There is a sort of city sophistication to the finishes at this rural-set, architecturally-designed over-basement home, 20 minutes from Ballincollig and a few miles north of Enniskeane.

If you’re into your sports in West Cork, you’ve probably been into the Coachman’s Inn, north of Skibbereen on the main Drimoleague road, at Bauravilla.

OVER 200 years after it was first laid out, Clonakilty’s Emmet Square is back with a bang, and historical resonances.

Beautifully-located, and big on several fronts, including energy efficiency, this Nohoval home is a nice and niche buy for those who savour coastal settings.

Trish Dromey dips a toe in a hidden cove and coastal offer with planning for a bigger three bed build.

The Wild Atlantic Way is good for business along Ireland’s indented coastline, say the couple about to sell up a well-performing local shop and cafe/restaurant, which they’ve developed through the recession.

Tommy Barker reports on an utterly charming rural idyll located near Clonakilty in West Cork which oozes charisma inside and out.

The four-storeyed Alteration Centre in Bandon could be just the property for a first time buyer with entrepreneurial inclinations.

Only the quality, and colour, of the front door, at the Old Post Office in Cork’s Dunderrow near Kinsale gives any hint there might be something a bit special within, at this cottage/bungalow extended home,a converted Post Office.

IT’S a short enough run down hill to the sea from this big, stone-faced modern home called Sunfield House.

Much appreciated by its well-travelled owner, this West Cork haven with developed garden is up for grabs, says Tommy Barker.

A ferry business move from one far-flung island corner of Ireland to the other brings the country’s most southerly pub and restaurant up for sale, on a hugely-popular tourist island, with a €250,000 asking price.

Size: 261sq m (2,800 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 100/110

Sq m: 90 (970 sq ft)

Sq m: 160 (1,700 sq ft)

Size: 130 sq m (1,400 sq ft)

Sq m: 93 (1,000 sq ft)

Size: 500/1,000 sq ft

Sq m: 140 (1,500 sq ft)

Sq m: 265 (2,850 sq ft)

THE word ‘breathtaking’ can be taken in several ways when talking of coastal sites: they can be stunning to look at, and even more so to look out from, but it can also mean so exposed and so windy that it’s hard to catch a breath.

PORTIONS of this south Cork farm have been sold over the past ten years, but now 214 acres are for sale in one lot, through joint agents, Ernest Forde, of Hodnett Forde, and Joe McCarthy, of Irish and European, for offers in the region of €1.7m.

West Cork €310,000

CARRIGROHANE, CORK €455,000

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.