Join the privileged few in a glorious natural setting

Tommy Barker explains how you can enjoy the high life at the right price.

A PATCHWORK of sea, harbour, field, forest rock and hill is laid out in glorious display beneath Baywood, a large home up for sale at Rushanes in West Cork's select Glandore area.

There's a trade-off between the advantages of water frontage and elevated settings, and hilly Glandore is one of the few places where some few fortunate house owners (such as TV's Carol Vorderman, or media baron Tony O'Reilly) can have both together.