Cottage to strike gold

WILL the reinvigorated ‘Connemara 4’ phenomenon drive the €400,000 guide price of this Galway cottage through its quaint thatched roof?

Newly up for sale is Plover Cottage, on the way to the white sanded Dolan beach, part of a Golden Mile stretch of West of Ireland coastline between chic Roundstone village and its harbour, and Ballyconeely and its golf course.

This scenic area is still pure Paul Henry landscape country, and its appeal to the honeyed, moneyed Dublin set was in evidence earlier this month when a derelict two-storey farmhouse house by the sheltered Ervallagh cove along the same coastline two miles from Roundstone soared at auction past its already strong €800,000 guide, to sell under the hammer for a whopping €1.24 million.