Upgraded home has own stream

WILDLIFE frolics in the foreground where a stream trickles through, the old estate trees and pasture of the abandoned Kincraigie Estate form a backdrop where horses graze, there are glimpses of the harbour at Courtmacsherry down below through the valley, beaches back over the headland; yes, Brookhill House has quite a bit in its favour.

The upgraded 1970s four-bed house has 2,600 sq ft of space, which includes a two-bed apartment. Quietly set up a hill from the Courtmacsherry Hotel in West Cork, and near the start of the Seven Heads walk, it is just enough of a remove from the summer throng, yet close enough to amble down to the popular village for a pint of milk, or a pint or two of something stronger.

Decorated in Cape Cod style, it is newly up for sale with Ray O’Neill of Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill, jointly with Timoleague estate agent Niall O’Sullivan, with an approachable €430,000-plus price guide. The area’s well-served with natural beauty, amenities, and seaside activities for all ages.

That €430,000-plus guide may seem low for a house so smartly presented, and with four bedrooms on its two uppermost levels, and good living quarters. Especially when it also has a good-sized two-bedroomed self-contained unit on its lower level, with large, L-shaped living space. This has rental possibilities for over six months of the year, and so will pay its way and then some, helping out on any new buyer’s mortgage, or else it can keep friends and long-stay visitors in some comfort, but at an attractive distance for all concerned.

Vendors of Brookhill House are writer and naturalist Damien Enright, who travels extensively, and his wife Marie, though they’ve moved just over the fence, having built a new detached house on some of the gardens at Brookhill.