At Bayview House Tommy Barker finds a harbour hillside property that brightly lives up to promise of the site’s prospect — exceptional.

COBH is full of the most unexpected twists and turns.

BOTH have water views – and both vendors have taken a view to a sale, dropping asking prices by hundreds of thousands of euros.

COBH is noted for the finery of its Victoria architecture and intact terraces, but not everything in the Cork harbour town dates to the mid-1800s.