West Cork’s Wild Atlantic Way may be beautiful, but according to tourists its public toilets are anything but a pretty sight.

If there’s a straw in the wind, or a clump of grassy divot in the road around this home called Seascape, it’s because there’s sporting heritage as well as beauty in the verdant ditches and road around this West Cork coastal home.

THE house is nothing to write home about — but the setting is postcard pretty. 

An ‘exceptionally-well finished’ property comes to the market just outside of Clonakilty, says Tommy Barker.

Size: 75 (807 sq ft)

CLOHEEN MARSH WALK, WEST CORK

A number of the country’s best known beaches are expected to lose their Blue Flag status as a result of the devastation caused by recent storms.

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.

As weather forecasts continue to suggest that 2013 will be the best summer the country has seen for years, four Irish Examiner writers profile their favourite beaches and hidden gems around the southern coastline.

The OPW is to fast track flood relief work in the Clonakilty area with a public consultation process likely to take place in the West Cork town within the next six weeks.

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

Fancy a beach day?

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

IT’S all about location in the property market — and farmland is no exception.

THIS seaside cottage is going to fit some new owner hand in glove — at least it did so for its vendor, actor and puppeteer Dominic Moore.

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.

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.

THERE are times when the writer would be tempted not to put a property on ‘de paper’ because they’d like it for themselves — and this is one of them.

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

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.

SMALL, but perfectly placed, this little seaside cottage at Red Strand, Clonakilty is an opportunity to grab, says auctioneer, John Hodnett.

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

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

Tommy Barker says a wine cellar adds to this impressive holiday home.

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.

TIMES change — 30 years ago, this beach-side field was the site for six small wooden chalets, frequented by visiting Dutch and Germans booking horse-drawn caravan holidays around West Cork.

Tommy Barker says the use of Italian craftsmen reflects the care with which this West Cork farmhouse has been renovated.

YOU can have a great outdoor life at Atlantic House, a coastal West Cork house up for sale on a handy amount of land to keep horses or ponies on.

NEXT door neighbours, two detached houses tucked away at the edge of a field overlooking West Cork’s Red Strand, are on the market catching the eyes of passing holiday-makers and promising a base for future breaks away.

JUST how do you price sites by the sea in West Cork, particularly following a couple of striking results in the Rosscarbery/Clonakilty area?

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.

THERE’S land, and then there’s the sea, and there are few enough places on the Irish coastline where the two come together so prettily as at Galley Head in West Cork.

By Tommy Barker.