Moor your own boat as you come in with the tides

JUST a road holds back the tides from Ashgrove, a Cork harbourside house newly up for sale.

The bungalow is on two wooded and mature acres, within spitting distance of the water on Great Island near Cobh.

There’s little escape from the view: open the hall door and there’s a full frontal vista of the lesser-known tidal reaches around the island, and the sitting room has two arched windows framing the same sort of views.