Lap up Tideaways home

WITH the waves lapping up at the back garden boundaries on high tide, and an indoor swimming pool alongside, Tideways has literally been floated on the market pitched at the executive family home sector.

Built with an exterior of cast stone to resemble cut stone, the distinctive house is on the banks of the Owenabue estuary near Carrigaline in Cork, a couple of miles upriver from Crosshaven and the expanses of Cork harbour. It is the waterside setting that attracted its last owners, and that’s what will appeal again to a new generation of owners.

It was home since 1982 to the legendary Irish yachtsman Denis Doyle and his wife Mary, and following the death of Mr Doyle last year is now being sold by his family. A man of considerable wealth, the late Denis Doyle was a salt in the true sense, skippering his third Moonduster yacht on his 20th consecutive Fastnet race at age 80, and he won the Tall Ships race in 1998.