Tide Cottage a throwback to the past

IT is so picture-postcard perfect you wouldn't be too surprised to see a fisherman outside the door smoking a pipe (or, separately, smoking fish) while mending his nets or tarring a boat.

Tide Cottage is a thatched throw-back to the past, the very personification of an island fisherman's humble home, and reckoned to be 200-300 years old.

Except Tide Cottage is on the mainland, at cul-de-sac Scotchman's Point almost by the water's edge below the Point Road in Crosshaven, with views rounding the indentations of Cork harbour and to Currabinny woods and its chic terraced homes across the water.