Tommy Barker on local property values.

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Carrickfern’s high-flying owners are selling up and heading home to Canada, hoping to take with them happy memories of times spent at their West Cork home, bought only a few years ago, reports Tommy Barker

Tommy Barker is blown away by this spectacularly set, architect-designed, no-expense spared home.

Tommy Barker reports on a rural, riverside and generously sized apartment on Kilmacsimon Quay.

The spec is as good as the setting at this imposing, modern family home above Kinsale, says Tommy Barker.

What a setting — it’s been sought-after, for 800 years or so.

Tommy Barker finds his breath taken away by this exquisitely set Ring of Kerry 2,800 sq ft hideaway.

Tommy Barker gets with the system for this post-and-beam home on Compass Hill, above Kinsale harbour.

Caragh Lake, Kerry €1.25 million

HOME is the sailor, home from the sea — and 5 Ard Cuan in Kinsale’s Ardbrack Heights is no bad spot to drop anchor at.

Renovated, six-bed house and add-on diner on four acres has been a labour of love for the owners, says Tommy Barker.

TWO miles up the Bandon river from Kinsale in Co Cork is a renovated Georgian home, Sleepy Hollow, complete with access to a tidal estuary beach.

Tommy Barker looks at an exceptional property in a rare location.

YOU couldn’t grow trees like these in a lifetime, says the international selling agent for one of the most exceptional slices of Gulf Stream and west Cork coastline, some 96 acres, five houses – one as large as 10,000 sq ft – and a golf course.

WEST CORK is more associated with fuchsias than fincas, but here’s a Glengarriff home to buck expectations.

THE views are the thing with a Kinsale bungalow/site for sale, with a €1.4 million price guide.