A place to float your boat

YOU won’t get too many houses right down at the waterfront in Kinsale Harbour, it is sort of the elite setting of an elite town, and that’s why this Lower Cove home is guided at €1.75 million.

Built several decades ago by a local man, who emigrated to the US and returned then to live here, it has vaguely American touches inside — open plan or linked living areas, now very much in vogue here — along with local architectural references, such as a slate-hung exterior.

But, that’s nearly enough about the house: after all, it is the site here that is king, in one of the country’s finest and fortified natural harbours, one utilised by generations of fishermen, sailors and bathers, and a backdrop for some of Munster’s dearest real estate.