Your chance to buy beside the seaside

“DON’T write about Howe Strand, you’ll have everyone going there,” whisper the cognoscenti when told there’s a seaside bungalow up for grabs in this little-known location.

Ignoring the entreaties of those who'd like to keep this sandy spot their secret, here goes. Howe Strand is close to Kilbrittain and Garrettstown, within easy enough punching distance of both Bandon and Kinsale, with Cork city 45 minute to an hour drive depending on traffic.

The road runs out as you arrive at Howe Strand, it is on the way to nowhere except the sea, and that's reason enough for many to call by.

A quick paddle across the beach (a stream runs through it) brings you to an imposing ruin, what seems to be a former coastguard station, and there are attractive shoreline walks.

New to the market, right on top of the beach is a four-bed bungalow, on a site of 1.6 acres running down a slope to the sea.

The bungalow is sound, but unremarkable, and many possible buyers will view it as 'unworthy' of such a fine site especially when the guide price for the property listed with Henry O'Leary Property Partners in Clonakilty is over €300,000.

At present, the house has hall, lounge with corner windows for the best sea views, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and three/four bedrooms, and has central heating.

Chances are any new owners will spend further on extending or altering the property, subject to planning when a sale is agreed given the quality of the setting and the slim-to-nil chance of getting planning for a site ever again so close to a beach.