Cork County Council officials are looking at the possibility of creating a special walkway for children with autism, which is believed would be the first of its type in the country.

West Cork home blends old and new, a traditional cottage with modern two-storey add-ons, says Tommy Barker.

THIS has been an intense year for West Cork musician Jessie Kennedy, writes Aisling Meath. 

Six years ago, estate agent Stephen Clarke put the restored lodge of the 17th century Monkstown Castle above Cork harbour, up for sale.

You could be run off your feet today if you go to view either of two sites, or a do-er upper bungalow, for sale in West Cork’s pretty and elevated coastal village of Ardfield.

There’s a lovely, aloof setting, high above the beach and dunes and developed strip of Owenahincha, at Dún an Óir, Gortnagrenane.

Tommy Barker reports on an exceptional harbourside home, in impeccable order inside and out.

It’s just a one-hour drive from Cork city to Henry’s Boutique Destination— one of the best kept secrets on The Wild Atlantic Way. 

An old, stone wall which was part of the original Castlefreke estate of Lord Carbery bounds Cloonbeg, a four-bed home which is for sale in West Cork’s Rathbarry village.

It’s not every day you get to teach a sports star a thing or two — but that’s exactly what a group of West Cork schoolboys did at the weekend.

The multi-millionaire brother of Lord Carbery has secured a High Court order freezing the assets of the woman he hired to restore the family’s abandoned gothic mansion, Castlefreke.

Rathbarry, West Cork €499,000

Sq ft 2,500, 1,930

Size: Sq m 100/110

Ten thousand homes were affected by major disruption to the water supply on the northside of Cork City yesterday which forced the closure of at least one school.

RATHBARRY, CASTLEFREKE AND THE LONG STRAND (CLONAKILTY)

Cork County Council has appointed consultants to compile a database of heritage sites under its control to see which of them could be exploited for tourism purposes.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country

West Cork €310,000

Artist Geraldine O’Sullivan will welcome visitors to her open studio and gardens at Castlefreke, Clonakilty, West Cork from 12 noon to 6pm, Aug 18 and 19.

It was Brideshead Revisited meets Gregorian chants — a send-off fit for a lord.

Monks from Glenstal Abbey will officiate at a fully sung Tridentine Latin mass for the funeral of the 11th Baron Carbery in Rathbarry today.

FARMERS, the self-employed, nurses who’ve just finished a night shift, retired and off-duty gardaí are all to be found in the midst of the search for the missing fishermen at Glandore Bay.

PRAYERS will be said this morning that the weather will change sufficiently to allow divers to search the wreck of the Tit Bonhomme, which may conceal the bodies of five fishermen feared drowned after it struck rocks and sank at the entrance to a bay in Co Cork.

THE bodies of some of the five missing crewmen of the tragic Tit Bonhomme trawler may still be trapped on board.

Take your pick from items from some of the big Cork houses. Des O’Sullivan reports

This west Cork oasis is a feast for the eyes, which the public can drool over at next weekend’s open days, writes Tommy Barker

Once home to a ruin, this coastal Kilkern site has been transformed, writes Tommy Barker.

IT’S all about location in the property market — and farmland is no exception.

ONE of Co Cork’s longest- serving local and national politicians, Senator Peter Callanan died yesterday.

NOT only can you hear the sea from this house at Fisher’s Cross, Castlefreke, but a quiet pint in the local is all of oh... 20 yards away.

THE chance to work from home, or live next to a business, is one thing: having that option right by the seaside is an altogether rarer thing indeed.

FINISHED only in the last few months, a coastal bungalow built by an architect has been designed to hide its relative bulk under not one, two but three stepped sections, with a few bedrooms tucked away out the back as well for good measure.

IF Clonakilty bills itself as the beach capital of west Cork, this Donour farmhouse is close to the centre of the action.

VIEWS, views and more views. That’s what you get at Balteenbrack, Ardfield, at Clonakilty, Co Cork, along with a fine big house and an impressive, three-quarters of an acre of ground.

JOHN HODNETT of SWS Property Services is selling a 47 acre residential holding at Liscubba, Lyre, six miles from Clonakilty in West Cork, which he describes as a very well located property.

JUST a mile from Red Strand, this cottage at Lisduff, Castlefreke, Co Cork is ripe for a holiday home purchase.

THE lament of a lone piper wafted through a woodland setting as the matriarch of one of West Cork’s best-known aristocratic families was laid to rest.

DIRK COVE: it sounds like the sort of name given to a shady character in a trashy novel. In fact, Dirk Cove is a beautiful bay on the way to Galley Head in West Cork, and home to the somewhat ominously-titled Seagale Cottage.

THERE’S nothing like local enterprise. In a region where the blow-in was the catalyst for a cultural revolution, it didn’t take long for locals to see the marketing potential of the West Cork brand.

ROSCARBERY is a bit of a hot spot at the moment - in property terms at least. Houses for sale in this coastal, West Cork area have consistently made big money, and reaching the guide price should be no problem for two properties which are for sale in the area.