Trish Dromey admires a West Cork waterside idyll which has been upgraded and extended with fine style

The wraps are coming off Cois Atha, a Skibbereen house development above the town end of the Baltimore Road. 

You are high, and dry, and almost hovering over the beach and the coastal views, at this seaside home in Tragumna, Co Cork, called none other than Beach House.

Crookhaven has hosted visitors from another galaxy. Tommy Barker looks at one of its star attractions.

Tommy Barker surveys this four-acre farmhouse property, ideal for a modern ‘small holder’ with spaces for agriculture, studio or even lodgings.

Architect designed at Union Hall on the Wild Atlantic Way, this four bed detached residence is attracting the attention of UK buyers.

There’s great scope and good value at the terraced Skibbereen townhouse called Park View.

The Red Mills Unraced Bitch Stake series, run in conjunction with the individual track supporters’ clubs, continues be a great success, and last Friday night’s victory for Badminton Rossa, in the Youghal renewal, was further testament to that.

Tommy Barker says carpenter owner worked well at this venerable West Cork courtyard cluster.

Called the Sycamores, this modern family home’s on a smashing four-acre plot of ground, with paddocks, just off the Baltimore Road a mile or so out from Skibbereen in a quiet setting.

HIGH up on a hill, in a green valley setting five miles from West Cork’s Bantry at Glandart, is The Hawthorns - a house that’s head and shoulders above the countryside norm in terms of size, finish and style.

Size: 140 (1,500 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 185 (2,000 sq ft)

Two-bed West Cork property comes with gardens and some old-world character Tommy Barker reports.

Tree House is a modern two-bed home that retains its rustic appeal. Tommy Barker

MAYFIELD, CORK €275,000

A price reduction to €175,000 has already brought a surge of fresh viewing interest to this quirky, colourful and charming West Cork townhouse at Skibbereen’s Upper Bridge Street.

Skibbereen townhouse is fully renovated and extended, with excellent use of materials, writes Tommy Barker

’Dooneen’ is a nice place to be on fine summer’s day. Tommy Barker reports

FIRIES, KERRY €495,000

Gardaí are examining whether or not they can take a criminal prosecution against double killer John Gallagher, who voluntarily returned to the Central Mental Hospital on May 14 after 12 years on the run.

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €200,000

Some lovely rural views are a bonus at the Old Stone Barn in West Cork, writes Tommy Barker

Orion’s period facade masks open-plan, light-filled interior in west Cork Tommy Barker reports

Union Hall calls as Tommy Barker finds an upgraded detached four-bed in a stunning location.

THE experienced hand of serial renovators is evident at this Dromig, Skibbereen home.

LESS than a year ago, a 103-acre farm at South Reen, Union Hall, in west Cork — which included a little island — was expected to sell to an overseas, or upper-level, hobby farm buyer.

Admirable buy at Nelson House

THE Old Schoolhouse, Lough Ine, is self-descriptive, really — but the price and location may be the clincher for anyone sitting on the fence when it comes to a holiday home buy.

DONE in the right order — services, community facilities and a new secondary school, were all provided before the housing came along at Ros na Geal, in west Cork’s Dunmanway.