No 3 Toureen Terrace in Passage West is 200 years old, with some deft designer touches and great views, Tommy Barker reports

YES, it was a website misprint: prices might be slashed all over the shop, but 9 Toureen Terrace — the family home of an acclaimed BBC documentary film-maker, the late Philip Donnellan — was never going to sell for e49,000.

ANYONE thinking of building a contemporary-designed and wholly modern new house would do well to travel to Ard Chuan, the Passage West location that lives up to its name, high above a sweeping river bend in Cork harbour.

ABOUT 90% there is the finish state of 9 Ard Cuain, a big dormer bungalow on a quarter-acre Cork Harbour site.

A LINE of soft, yellow houses faces down a valley at Marmullane, Passage West, in Co Cork and the aspect means that each three-storey unit has lower harbour views.