As the beech leaves fall in all their legion colours and float on the garden pond or lie on the bottom like a bright mosaic under the clear water, whirligigs scud about on the surface like little, black, four-legged ice skaters or sometimes rest on slowly-floating leaves that are half submerged.

ERNEST FORDE of Hodnett Forde Property Services has concluded the sale of a 36-acre farm at Burrane, Timoleague for a sum believed to be in the region of €10,000-plus per acre.

HAGHILL House Farm is a new market entrant this week for the Hodnett Forde Property Services partnership, and this fine south Cork pasture land should generate keen interest.