Size: 75 (807 sq ft)

Dunworley, West Cork Price: €150,000

BUTLERSTOWN-SHANAGH (Seven Heads Walk, West Cork)

Productive gardens and cropping polytunnels, hen house and run, fruit and secret gardens all on 1.2 acres near the coast, and an extended former two-up, two-down cottage that’s now a three-bed with flair, is on offer at West Cork’s Lislevane.

EXPECTING Easter weekend drive-bys and renewed viewings is West Cork estate agent and surveyor John Kerr, whose survey of this seaside home includes the picturesque descriptive word ’haggard.’

Silver Strand, Sherkin Island, Co Cork

CLOUDS of butterflies and a haze of day-flying moths rose from beneath our feet as we walked the Seven Heads in west Cork on the glorious last day of May 2009.

The local crew of Liam McCarthy/Kieran Murphy, in their Toyota Corolla WRC, have a 33-second lead at the end of the first leg of the Quality Hotels West Cork Rally in Clonakilty.

THE Seven Heads ranks amongst the most scenic, least spoiled areas of coastal west Cork.

Damien Enright on the joys an Indian summer brings.

You wouldn’t need to win Lotto to take over from Otto says Tommy Barker.

A MARITIME historian’s efforts to identify a 17th century wreck which hebelieved to be a historic slave ship led to his appearance in court yesterday.

FRIDAY, Saturday and Sunday, July 14 to 18, was the best weekend for horse-racing on the sandbanks or lazing on the beach for this or many a year.

IT’S not often you get the Real McCoy but this little rusty-roofed number at Lehenagh, Lislevane, is an authentic traditional cottage.

OTTO KUNZE and his wife Hilde run a restaurant with rooms in Dunworley, near Butlerstown in west Cork.

Slow Food Market in Emmet Place, Cork to celebrate 150 years of Cork Opera House, Sunday, May 22, 12-6pm - lots of delicious food from artisan producers - sausages, cheese, fudge ... live music - for all the family.

A date for your diary. Midleton Food and Drink Festival September 4-5, 2004.