A WEST Cork bungalow at Dundeady, on the approach road to the Galley Head lighthouse, has a west-facing vista over pounding surf on Long Strand to Rosscarbery Bay, with other visual highlights being Castlefreke castle (now being renovated by the Freke family) Glandore bay and points further west, with the Fastnet a distant sentinel.

Rose Martin ambles around an Elizabethan-style home that comes with its very own ruins attached.

ARNOLD Schwarzenegger calls his new state Collyifornia, and in West Cork the current state of grace is Clonifornia.

HISTORY has its own values — and it can also underpin property worth, as in the case of evocative Dunboy Castle in West Cork.

THINK of the Summer Bay restaurant in the TV soap Home and Away, and give it an Irish twist and you get a picture of what might be at the Maryland Cafe, in West Cork’s turbulent beach Long Strand.