The Burrow a perfect retreat

KEEPING its head proudly above ground is the modestly-titled home The Burrow, in wild West Cork’s Ahakista.

The boosted bungalow, all bulked up on designer steroids and built in staggered stages, is set right above the tiny village outside Durrus and Bantry, overlooking scenic Dunmanus Bay.

Ahakista is still set to be the hide-away home of Graham Norton, if the complicated and protracted legals on his purchase of period and waterside Ahakista House can be completed.

A cleaner purchase must be The Burrow, extended again and again out of a 40-year-old cottage.

This place now has about 3,000 sq ft of accommodation, on a site of an acre and a quarter, and it is packed with extra features.

The vendors have been five years in situ at The Burrow, and clearly are animal lovers: a paddock for goats, stables and a duck pond are on hand.

Wot, no rabbits?

Creature comforts include five bedrooms, sauna, two Jacuzzi baths, two timber decks/decked balconies off the main bedroom.

A vaulted sun room and a southerly aspect all combine to create a bright, welcoming home.

The Burrow has a €575,000-region price guide quoted by Caroline Maslin of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill.