The train has been and gone, and now the ‘Express’ need to get a riverside home here by the Argideen River near Timoleague will be to beat a planning deadline.

There are both stark and Starck reminders, of very different times, at this one-off West Cork home on the verdant banks of the Argideen River.

Walk to castle greeted by a locked door

OUR local bay is less green this summer than any summer since the seasonal sea lettuce began a scourge a decade ago.

Sq m: 113 (1,211sq ft)

Classic 315-acre estate has links to Ford founder Henry Ford, and Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, reports Tommy Barker.

A West Corkestate that includes the ancestral home of motor manufacturing pioneer Henry Ford, and linked to Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Imperial Call, is being offered for sale for €9m.

Kilmaloda House near Timoleague, Co Cork, was built as the country seat of the Beamish family.

Slowly. Silently. The sea lettuce crisis began in 1995, writes Tony Lowes

Former rectory comes with swimming pool and apartments, writes Tommy Barker

With its manageable size and €600,000 guide price, Tommy Barker finds a piece of West Cork that exudes charm and a lot of potential

HEAVENLY, is a word that springs to mind as I walk along the bay-side path on New Year’s morning.

Damien Enright reports further on our lack of insects.

FIVE minutes from Clonakilty town, and in the ‘suburb’ of Shannonvale, no 1 An Muileann is a tasty, trading-up buy for West Coasters.

Newly-arrived visitors to Ireland, passing Inchy Bridge on the Argideen River at midnight, could be forgiven for drawing the wrong conclusions upon seeing a huddle of men in polaroid glasses standing about, hands deep in pockets or leaning on the parapet looking into the water below.