You’re set back just a bit from the best of the views to be had over Inchydoney Beach (often rated as one of Ireland’s most popular) at this seaside home up for sale, but while it just lacks beach and ocean views, the upside is a bit more tranquillity, and one of the larger sites to be had in the West Cork coastal setting, an hour from city and airport.

This restored farmhouse called Providence Manor, is according to local legend, one of the West Cork safe houses where Michael Collins found shelter during the war of Independence.

Trish Dromey hears that this unique property is generating a lot of interest and not just from holidaymakers.    

A 1990s-built, yet traditional looking 14-bedroomed townhouse accommodation business in West Cork’s Clonakilty has a guide price of €600,000 as it comes for sale, all ready to trade: even the bedrooms are prepped for guests.

The animals as well as the humans will find a home here, writes Tommy Barker

YOU drive to the very end of the road, on a spectacular Kinsale headland, to get to Ferrypoint.

Ardfield, West Cork €375,000

Modern build and boat access makes this a prefect retreat, Tommy Barker reports

DOUGLAS, CORK €375,000

MONTENOTTE, CORK €325,000

Derelict traditional farmhouse has a special location, Tommy Barker reports

SKIBBEREEN, Co Cork €69,000

Dunmanway, Co Cork €130,000

An astonishing €22,000 per acre was made at auction last week for a 9 acre, unzoned field in the sleepy village of Inchigeelagh, Co Cork.

DUNMANWAY, WEST CORK €349,000

A BRAND new start.

MODEL FARM ROAD €895,000

The nine-acre field at Inchigeelagh, Co Cork, is being sold at agricultural price levels.

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country

THERE’s house renovations — and then there’s this Raheen job, a real labour of love.

A west Cork bungalow adds a few twists and turns to deviate from the norm and add some interest, writes Tommy Barker

THIS inland, west Cork old farmhouse and adjoining stone annexe on three acres at Inchafune, Dunmanway, comes up for sale with a €195,000 guide price.

OUTSTANDING, in its own field (well, three acres) is this Rushanes, Glandore, west Cork home, surveyor of some of great inner harbour and Union Hall views, thanks to its lofty location.

YOU wouldn’t have had the chance to buy/afford a package like this in the past decade or so, says the selling agent of this west Cork country-home package, on five acres of land, north of Clonakilty.

THAT long oul’ drive to Dublin must be getting to him as Senator Ivor Callely’s “current principal residence” is on the market.

BEDROOMS top and bottom, and living areas in the middle — these just-completed Cois Atha, Skibbereen houses are more than a little bit different.

WHO buys houses on islands? Well, active, outdoors types for one.

DIRECTLY across the road from the impressive stone church in west Cork’s Clonakilty town, this sizeable Western Road corner house also dates from the same 1880s period.

Tommy Barker on a stunning waterside home that makes a splash.

THANKS to a large rear extension, the west Cork bungalow Garland has a surprising 2,000 sq ft of space, and is priced so that new owners can put a final stamp on the new rooms to the rear.

WITH a famous movie producer neighbour, a tidal estuary at the garden’s end plus a boathouse, pretty stables and an interior as stunning as its exterior, Tidewater Hideaway is very much in west Cork’s upper echelons.

SIDE by side, cheek by jowl — but separate — two west Cork coastal neighbouring properties have appeals to buyers seeking slightly different things.

A SPRING sale beckons for October Cottage, an extended three-bed semi-detached in Clonakilty, Co Cork with bay views and a quality interior.

A MOVE to sunnier Spain from sometimes wet west Cork beckons for the British owners of Top Cottage.

The four-bed house in Coppeen, west Cork, has extensions to the rear and side and a guide price of €299,000.

A WHOLE lot of house and land for the money: that’s how estate agent Henry O’Leary bills this Rearahinagh, Skibbereen, west Cork house.

THE acre of gardens at Roancarrig have clearly been a labour of love for decades. But, now down-sizing time has beckoned for its retired vendor, a well-known senior medic and a man who lent his professional services to west Cork’s lifeboats, Life-saving on several fronts has been a forte.

GREEN Acres is the place to be, land, spreading out so far and wide ... No, while the Green Acres name fits, we’re not in 1960s TV sitcom land’s Hooterville, but in Innishannon, west of Cork city.