Peninsula home adds up to much more than the sum of its parts

DIRECT access to the sea always carries a bit of cachet and marketability.

An extreme case might be the moves by one Colla Road, Schull, house owner, to link his west Cork home to the oceans.

A wealthy individual with the champagne surname of Bollinger also has a house that aspires to the bubbly lifestyle: William Bollinger has built one of west Cork's most imposing piles on the Colla Road but on the inland side.