Come back and write another chapter, Daphne. That’s what Victoria White kept thinking as she stared in horror at the security fencing which now surrounds the Puxley Mansion outside Castletownbere. She explains why.

NEIL JORDAN might have filmed his award-wining mythical movie Ondine starring Colin Farrell in west Cork’s scenic Castletownbere – but not all fairytales come true in CastleDown Dere.

DESPITE the economic downturn, the developers of a €60 million luxury hotel in west Cork have decided to plough ahead with the project.

A shot of a crossroads in Allihies village, west Cork, made it to the cover of a book sold in the thousands of copies, and summarised perhaps the poorer, wetter, less-outward looking Ireland of the 1970s.

HISTORY has its own values — and it can also underpin property worth, as in the case of evocative Dunboy Castle in West Cork.