This cannot fail to light up your life

A BIT of a Kinsale beacon in terms of its accommodation, The Lighthouse is a 10-bedroomed, 10-bathroomed house that may be just about to give up its days of taking in guests to instead accommodate the largest of family needs.

Just publicly on the market with James Murphy & Co (it had a brief website flirtation in the spring) it is on a hillside at The Rock, in the top coastal tourist town just up from the garda station.

Mr Murphy guides it at €1.3 million — and, really, things are back on form in Kinsale to such an extent that no one bats at eyelid at €1 million-plus tags.