Enjoy upper deck harbour living at Upper Ardmore

CURIOSITY factor is high in the case of quirky, harbour-side homes, as evidenced by the flood of cars down to see last weekend’s featured property, the upmarket Horse Head scheme in Cork’s Passage West.

“It was like the boat show or the motor show; cars, Jeeps and Mercs driving by, and walkers peering in from the old rail line and riverside walk,” say agents McKenna O’Donoghue Clarke, of the Abington-like, €2m-plus homes in Passage.

For those taken by the harbour-side setting, but short of the cash needed, there’s a new local option for €1m or so less.