Don’t miss the boat on this offer

WATCHING the tides will be a new fixation for the buyer of this slice of Galway heaven: access to Omey Island off the Connemara coast is across the beach, twice a day at low tide.

If you miss the tides it is time to break out the boat.

A spectacularly sited stone ruin, occupied by two men until the 1980s, had the final indignity of having its slate roof torn off in the Christmas gales of 1998 - as did many occupied homes.