Hook, line and sinker

DONE up from stem to stern is Wildwater Lodge, a bolthole for anglers on Lough Corrib's Birchall Bay.

Set on one of the great game fisheries on the road to Oughterard, the property, on a half acre of land, literally dips its toe in the water favoured by mayfly and, consequently, brown trout and grilse.

It comes with a pier with two berths, plus a berth at Birchall Bay, and anyone arriving in Galway by car or plane "can be on the water fishing from their property within an hour", says estate agent Paul McLoughlin of Sherry FitzGerald Kavanagh.