Hillside House close to centre of Kinsale

KINSALE Lives has put a new focus on the Co Cork - in fact the TV series has cornered the market in soft-focus, long-lensed, seductive window-basketed photography.

One of the country’s top tourist spots over several decades, it is home to a couple of thousand inhabitants, rising to mutiples of this amount in high season.

And, Hillside House, on Kinsale’s Camphill is a home big enough to cope with swelling numbers. It is a large 1960s family home with lots of living space and, like more than a few other hospitable houses in the town, it has scope to take in PGs, paying guests.

It has up to 4,500 sq ft of living and sleeping space, with attic rooms suitable for many uses, and is within walking distance of Kinsale town centre. Guide price with Johnny O’Flynn of Sherry FitzGerald in Cork is €750,000, so while it is a lot of money, it is also a lot of house, he stresses.

And, he also underpins the quality of the accommodation inside and outside, saying “it is a beautifully maintained and imaginatively extended property.”

Accommodation includes hall, lounge leading to a sun room, dining room linked with an arch to a living room, there’s a good kitchen with utility and a very large family room as well, with built-ins. It has six, all en suite, and two attic rooms with built-ins, plus bathroom.