Life above ocean waves

IT is not so much the house, more the site and the location that might justify the asking price close to €1 million which attaches to Ard na Greine.

The house itself is a largish, three-bedroomed, L-shaped bungalow, nothing to get too excited about initially, but factor in water frontage, private access to a shingle beach and views across the water to Baltimore village, and the pieces of the property jigsaw that is highly priced West Cork begin to come together.

The house, likely to be bought as a full-time or retirement home, is on the market with Skibbereen-based Charles McCarthy, who has a number of multimillion euro property transactions in the balance as the summer season comes to an end.