STEEP, wooded and with no farm buildings to speak of, this 84-acre west Cork farm at Kilcomane, Dunbeacon, Durrus, is an international level hobby farm, which probably falls outside the radar of agriculturalists.

EXCEPT that he’s too proper to say it, estate agent Charles McCarthy might bill the €1.5 million price tag on this waterfronting west Cork home “a drop in the ocean compared to what’s being dropped in the ocean nearby.”