CASTLEPOINT Court might be a modern enough build, but these three-storey houses owe something to the layout of Victorian or Georgian terraces — and the views from here are classic Cork— pure Crosshaven.

Sq m: 149 (1,600 sq ft)

IT IS over 100 years since the peninsula curve and wooded hill at Currabinny was colonised with large homes for Cork’s merchant classes. Many served for years as summer and second homes, but now, the area’s very much a year-round community, at a sublime Cork harbour setting.

The Menu has spent the past few days rummaging through the attic for his finest Capt Birds Eye kit as he gets dickied up for what promises to be a most splendid caper: a harbour cruise down to Cronin’s Pub, in Crosshaven, for the latest Munster Foodie Tweetup, where food-loving virtual Twitter friends meet up in the flesh for … yup, food!

IT’S a bit of a beauty, this double-decker cottage in Crosshaven. And it’s not just the privacy, the huge site and the reach-over views of Drake’s Pool — it’s the potential.

YOU’LL have the yachting world at the end of your garden if you are quick enough at 1 Ard na Lí, in Cork harbour’s Crosshaven.

THE name is unintentionally ironic - Costa Villa now costs-a-plenty at the guide price of €690,000.

SALES, not sails, have rounded the half-way mark at the Crosshaven seaside village development Brightwater, with showhouses opening this weekend in plenty of time for the biennial Ford Cork Week.