Sand Quay Mill ideal place for the over-50s

CLONAKILTY may well turn out to be a town to put grey hairs on you. While the place is nick-named Clonifornia and is awash in youthful surfers, its planners have also ear-marked several sites and developments specifically for the over-50s.

Land near the town’s hospital and now on the market is zoned and restricted for uses related to the hospital, or perhaps a retirement community, while at the western end of the town another retirement community development Clogheen Meadows and adjoining nursing home is just completed and sold out.

In the middle of the town, meanwhile, a mill conversion with nine apartments has also been targeted at the older set, those aged 50 years and above.