The Lake House near Toormore in West Cork is a gem finished to highest standards, combining taste and practicality, writes Tommy Barker.

It must be hard keeping up with the Joneses down around West Cork’s chi-chi Castletownshend. 

Traditional farmhouse on three acres comes with barn and old stone buildings but needs upgrades and money spent, says Tommy Barker.

The RTÉ drama, Charlie, was entertaining, if more Callan’s Kicks than history. Despite its portrayal of Mr Haughey as venal, shallow and one-dimensional, many of the incidents seem based on truth.

Munster’s property market has kicked off the new year with an €18m apartment complex sale in Cork City, bought by UCC, along with a €1.35m coastal house sale in West Cork.

Tooreen, Skibbereen, West Cork  €270,000

Green Property’s Stephen Vernon has swooped on one of West Cork’s loveliest spots, he tells Tommy Barker.

Ahakista, West Cork €1.2 million-plus

Friends in high places — no, not more on the Garth Brooks saga, it’s Graham Norton doing a social media favour for West Cork neighbours who are selling up in his beloved Ahakista.

The multi-million euro West Cork holiday home, Shorecliffe, owned by Sir Anthony O’Reilly, in Glandore, since the 1970s, has had a number of low-key viewings, mostly from overseas parties.

Size: Sq m 462 (5,080 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 370 (4,000 sq ft)

As expected, Limerick’s Ardscoil Rís booked their spot in the Dr Harty Cup quarter-finals as they saw off St Flannan’s, Ennis on a 2-24 to 1-10 scoreline at Sixmilebridge yesterday.

A waterfront, 2.5-acre site in West Cork’s Baltimore port and tourist village, earmarked for a marina and tourism development, is for sale.

Schull home is still a winner, says Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker reports on an appealing offer near chic Castletownshend in West Cork.

Tranquil Cluain Áilinn, complete with pontoon and privacy, will be a stretch for most, writes Tommy Barker

Beautiful area, beautiful farm — but what will be the outcome of this once-in-a-lifetime sale?

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €285,000

If this high-end, West Cork house looks familiar, it’s because it graced these pages a year ago as a stand-out example of quality contemporary architecture (delivered by Germans) in part of the south’s most wonderful landscape.

A West Cork period home has been sold for about €4m after five years on the market.

THERE are precious things in the world for which the mere act of acquisition is enough — the beauty for beauty’s sake of jewels and paintings, though not of practical use.

DUBLIN-based fish processor and exporter Rockabill Shellfish has bought a West Cork business premises, as part of an expansion move leading to 30 immediate extra jobs.

Liosamona is a 120-year-old traditional home sitting on half an acre, Tommy Barker reports

Scenic views, a great design and an ideal location could help this house reach its guide, says Tommy Barker.

IF you were to sketch the sort of west Cork farmhouse package that gets city folk yearning to up sticks and move to the country, you’d probably have a mental image of this Cooranuller, Ballydehob offering.

THE period farmhouse Aluette was done up, not once, but twice, with gardens and glazing among its best features.

WITHIN a walk of three great beaches near Castletownshend, Barnett’s House at Dooneen is, in many ways, the quintessential west Cork hideaway.

IT’S no surprise in a week when the EU and IMF take over the country without firing a shot, that farm bidders have been quiet.

LITTLE point in speculating now about what would have been paid five years ago for a Glandore perch like 1, The Terrace – the point now is will this prime-perch property with shore frontage be bid above its market reality €400,000 asking price.

THOSE with an ear for a bit of the old gaeilge may realise where Taggart Park in west Cork’s Castletownshend got its name.

NEAT and neatly set, Ballinatona Cottage is a west Cork holiday home to covet.

SCHULL has some of west Cork’s dearest properties, with water views at a price premium. The winsomely-titled Dingle Dells doesn’t have stunning water vistas, but it does have some things as good or even better — shoreline, land, and a private shingle cove.

SHE told them to put him in the bath and melted all the jelly she had, poured it into the hot water with which she had surrounded his comatose form, and left it to solidify around him with a spoon on the ledge, together with a note reading ‘Eat your way out’My phone made its text noise when I was starting to cook. I ignored it.

FORGET ‘The Eagle has Landed’: July has had such a wet and windy start that even the seagulls are land-bound.

Up-and-coming defender Cormac McGuinness has become the latest Meath player to withdraw from the inter-county set-up.