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Right on the Wild Atlantic Way 15 minutes west of Clonakilty, and close enough to see and hear the sea, is this renovated and upgraded coastal home of character, at a spot called Ganniv Mór near Ardfield and Rathbarry villages.

This West Cork home with gorgeous sea views is sure to attract plenty of interest, writes Tommy Barker. 

If there’s a straw in the wind, or a clump of grassy divot in the road around this home called Seascape, it’s because there’s sporting heritage as well as beauty in the verdant ditches and road around this West Cork coastal home.

THE house is nothing to write home about — but the setting is postcard pretty. 

A respect for the environment was second nature to a couple who enhanced this home, says Tommy Barker.

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

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. 

The arrival of large numbers of minke whales along Irish inshore waters seems like a good omen for all-Island whale watch day tomorrow.

Rathbarry, West Cork €499,000

It’s going to be amazing. Work has started on one of the largest maize mazes in the country.

Size: Sq m 100/110

In the glory days of the 70s and 80s Owenahincha was a buzzing holiday hotspot. Tommy Barker visits a very different place today, yet there may be signs of a brighter future for this faded beauty

The Lightkeeper: A memoir

Ardfield, West Cork €375,000

A memorial plaque is to be unveiled next week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a plane crash off the Cork coast which claimed the lives of 28 people.

Contemporary coastal home is private and set on eight landscaped acres in West Cork, writes Tommy Barker

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

Heritage is as much about where we’re going as where we’ve come from. So why not spend Heritage Week getting in touch with our past – and having fun in the process?

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

WEATHERING the downturn is a coastal scheme with a name like a familiar, old-school Irish essay — Cois Farraige, beside the sea.

Tommy Barker says a wine cellar adds to this impressive holiday home.

THERE’S a certain clique that dubs Ardfield and Rathbarry in west Cork as Clonakilty Four, mainly because of the high house prices in the pretty seaside area within an hour’s commute of Cork city.

Tommy Barker says the use of Italian craftsmen reflects the care with which this West Cork farmhouse has been renovated.

A WEST Cork bungalow at Dundeady, on the approach road to the Galley Head lighthouse, has a west-facing vista over pounding surf on Long Strand to Rosscarbery Bay, with other visual highlights being Castlefreke castle (now being renovated by the Freke family) Glandore bay and points further west, with the Fastnet a distant sentinel.

YOU can have a great outdoor life at Atlantic House, a coastal West Cork house up for sale on a handy amount of land to keep horses or ponies on.

THERE’S land, and then there’s the sea, and there are few enough places on the Irish coastline where the two come together so prettily as at Galley Head in West Cork.

By Tommy Barker.