A 27-acre holding in a spectacular coastal location in West Cork is newly listed with Dunmanway-based auctioneers Daniel Lehane & Co.

One of West Cork's most glorious wild beaches, the Long Strand near Clonakilty and Rosscarbery is having a bit of a 'moment in the sun', it would seem.

The sea isn’t the only thing that might go bump in the night this weekend at this West Cork seaside hideaway — approach it this Halloween Weekend, and the sight of the front door is enough to stop you in your tracks.

Videographer Dan Linehan spoke to Sean Masterson on Long Strand in West Cork where dozens of Portuguese Man O' War jellyfish have washed ashore.

A message in a bottle, sent from Florida in the US, arrived on a sandy west Cork beach last week, almost exactly one year after it left the Sunshine State’s shores.

Rose Martin is refreshed after a weekend in the five-star Inchydoney Island Hotel and Spa, eating home-made breakfast, walking on the beach and dining to sea views.

An old, stone wall which was part of the original Castlefreke estate of Lord Carbery bounds Cloonbeg, a four-bed home which is for sale in West Cork’s Rathbarry village.

Rathbarry, West Cork €499,000

The Co Cork coastline may not have been as ravaged by the recent storms as their counterparts in Kerry and Clare, but damage was still done and repairs are required, writes Noel Baker as our three-part series on how the the storms changed Ireland continues.

A body has been recovered in Co Kerry.

RATHBARRY, CASTLEFREKE AND THE LONG STRAND (CLONAKILTY)

West Cork €310,000

Your articles (Jan 23, Page 9) on the bureaucratic delays and difficulties preventing work on waterways in West Cork was very interesting.

A young Skibbereen man who spent 20 days helping in the land and sea search for the Tit Bonhomme trawler off Union Hall has been named as one of the overall winners of the West Cork Garda Youth Awards.

West Cork land in a stunning location will draw international interest as well as local, writes Tommy Barker

THE Wille Mullins-trained Dorset Square took full advantage of his apparently lenient flat mark when justifying 6/5 favouritism in the John Madden & Sons Handicap in Ballinrobe last night.

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

THE clachan and baile fearann are terms continually tossed about when the subject of rural one-off housing comes up.

PUNTERS who backed De Valira in the mile and six conditions race at Tipperary last night had every reason to feel aggrieved.

VOLER La Vedette gets the nap to land a cracking five-runner Grade 3 WKD Core Hurdle at Down Royal this afternoon.

NOT only can you hear the sea from this house at Fisher’s Cross, Castlefreke, but a quiet pint in the local is all of oh... 20 yards away.

THE For Sale sign has gone up, bang on time, for Primrose Hill, a west Cork coastal property putting out its wares, as real primroses make their spring presence shown.

TRAFFORD LAD, a horse who has been good to us in the past, is again entrusted with the nap in the Bar One Racing Drinmore Chase on a smashing card at Fairyhouse tomorrow.

THE chance to work from home, or live next to a business, is one thing: having that option right by the seaside is an altogether rarer thing indeed.

BACK in Ballydehob, CCM’s Jim O’Brien is selling a 38-acre non-residential farm in a scenic location.

SOME might call it bare-faced cheek, but two of Ireland’s most spectacular beaches feature in a US guide to the Top 100 Places to Get Naked.

A YOUNG surfer was shocked to find he was the centre of a major search at the weekend, involving more than 50 members of the emergency services and an RAF helicopter.

FINISHED only in the last few months, a coastal bungalow built by an architect has been designed to hide its relative bulk under not one, two but three stepped sections, with a few bedrooms tucked away out the back as well for good measure.

IF Clonakilty bills itself as the beach capital of west Cork, this Donour farmhouse is close to the centre of the action.

ALL set up for hobby-farm use, a more likely outcome than being bought for future development, is assessment of estate agent John Deady as he brings 10 waterview acres by Clonakilty bay to the market.

JUST a mile from Red Strand, this cottage at Lisduff, Castlefreke, Co Cork is ripe for a holiday home purchase.

LAST up for sale two years ago, but withdrawn from the market for a period by its owner the sculptor Eilis O'Connell, Castlefreke Cottage is a West Cork seaside buy with an auction sale deadline.

DIRK COVE: it sounds like the sort of name given to a shady character in a trashy novel. In fact, Dirk Cove is a beautiful bay on the way to Galley Head in West Cork, and home to the somewhat ominously-titled Seagale Cottage.

ROSCARBERY is a bit of a hot spot at the moment - in property terms at least. Houses for sale in this coastal, West Cork area have consistently made big money, and reaching the guide price should be no problem for two properties which are for sale in the area.

THE ATLANTIC comes crashing almost to the door, and a stream feeds from a lake to the ocean. There's dunes to hand, surfing for the brave, forest walks, headlands bookended by a lighthouse: welcome to Long Strand.

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.

Tommy Barker casts an admiring eye over an idyllic West Cork retreat.

WITH Ireland’s tidiest village, Rathbarry, on its doorstep, and views to a lake, the ocean and beaches, a lighthouse and a castle, there’s a lot to look at in this West Cork home, now up for sale.

ARNOLD Schwarzenegger calls his new state Collyifornia, and in West Cork the current state of grace is Clonifornia.