Feel the pull of the ocean at a unique harbour site

THE coast just west of Cork harbour's mouth has come alive in the last few years, with year-round lights dotting the coastline as clear and shining evidence of the area's surge in popularity.

Architect Peter Sheehan of Coastal Design, who is selling the family home in one of the area's best perches, has lived and worked in Myrtleville since the late 1980s, and has been witness to the way former holiday home chalets have given way to large one-off homes for permanent residence.

Mystic Lodge, named from the Van Morrison song Into the Mystic, differs from the usual run of homes in that it is a 3,000 sq ft house, on half an acre of ground - and what a site.