Emergency services are tonight searching the seas off West Cork for a vessel carrying three

Rossbrin and Stouke, West Cork

The first night the owners of this West Cork farm sprawling homestead called Ancaire spent under their newly-acquired roof gave them the realisation they’d have to spend a bit more — a gale blew one of the windows in.

IT will be a hard job keeping up with the neighbours at this farmhouse buy — but, it’s likely the buyers will in any case be fairly well-heeled, and Hunter wellington-shod.

THERE’S only a handful of houses along the front row of the road around Rossbrin in west Cork – it the most scenic of ways of navigating the distance between Ballydehob and Schull.

HOUSES in the west Cork “lifestyle cove” of Rossbrin rarely come up for sale, they get handed down through the generations, and there’s little surprise about that.

Tommy Barker says a holiday haven near Schull is a real gem

THE West Cork market is about to come out of its seasonal slumbers, and auctioneer Martin Swanton of Ballydehob believes that the auguries are good as he brings a €1.1 million Ballydehob offering to market.