The setting, the sea, the sunny aspect, the swimming holes beneath the sloping terraced grounds - just some of the features that combine to make Ceann Mhara a very special buy.

Carrigaline, Cork €475,000

A coastal Cork mill building which literally has come back from the dead has a poignant anniversary next year— it’s by an on-shore spot close to the 1915 sinking of a British tanker.

A senior garda has tried to allay community leaders’ fears that a tourist hotspot in Cork will not have its Garda station closed following the transfer of its sole sergeant.

An unmanned aircraft and speed boat were deployed in a dramatic rescue of a sinking yacht at the mouth of Cork Harbour yesterday.

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

NOT every one-off house built during the boom was a McMansion — for every monster-sized block of a house mindlessly plonked in a field, there’s probably another built just right for its setting, and more discretely placed.

A major documentary on John Holland, the Irishman who invented the modern submarine, is being planned to mark the centenary of his death next year.

Quality will out, and it shines through in Moorpark, a classic villa-style bungalow with sea and Ringabella views in Cork’s Fountainstown.

THREE reception rooms, four bedrooms, a lot of garden, and a cul de sac setting facing a green, are all to the favour of 56 Wrenville, a detached family home on the Kinsale road just outside Carrigaline in Cork.

A MAJOR air, sea and land search will resume again at dawn today for missing fisherman, Gerry Hegarty, who fell into Cork Harbour after the small boat he was in capsized.

THERE’s a strong maritime feel to the house Driftwood — not unsurprising, maybe, as one of its owners is in the boat repair business.

BIG, prosperous farms abound in the south Cork hinterland near Minane Bridge, and proximity to the sea adds to its desirability as a rural living location.

A VAST collection of historic documents which sheds light on the early work in Cork of submarine inventor John Phillip Holland was presented to the country’s maritime college yesterday.

STILL an incoming tide at Cork city’s nearest beach at Fountainstown, then? Following a recent sale by public auction of a pretty villa-like bungalow right by the popular beach in Cork for €875,000, estate agent Roy Dennehy has consolation prizes for disappointed underbidders.

HMMM, what to do with Paddock Cottage?

SPLENDID warm sunshine and gentle breezes gave perfect conditions for the skippers and crews on the 140 boats which took to the water for the second race of the C.H. Marine Autumn League series at Royal Cork, boosted because this was also the final race of the SCORA season long leagues.