The bold and beautiful

BIG, bold and in a beautiful location, this house at Keel, Kilgobnet in Co Kerry is priced at around E1.2 million. And why?

A cursory glance would suggest that this is just another big, one-off house, the kind that gets right up the nose of conservationists and which is about to be blacklisted by every planning department countrywide.

Yes, it is another big house, but on a scale way beyond the usual ambitions of Síle and Seán Citizen we're talking almost 7,000 sq ft here.