Red Lodge is in a prime setting, looking west towards Dunmore, over the main access road to Inchydoney’s beaches.

Tommy Barker finds a acres of land for a small home, by the expanse of West Cork’s Inchydoney beach.

You’re set back just a bit from the best of the views to be had over Inchydoney Beach (often rated as one of Ireland’s most popular) at this seaside home up for sale, but while it just lacks beach and ocean views, the upside is a bit more tranquillity, and one of the larger sites to be had in the West Cork coastal setting, an hour from city and airport.

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country.

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