Wood you be tempted?

THE fact that the owner of this modern take on the west Cork farmhouse is a carpenter/joiner by trade is a pretty good guarantee of workmanship, says estate agent Pat Maguire of a house he is selling near Skibbereen.

Just a mile off the Cork road on the way into Skibbereen, this recently-built Coolnagurrane home is feature-packed, with a range of quality woods. It packs a property punch too.

First up, the €675,000 house has 2,500 sq ft of space, with three of its four bedrooms en suite, so it meets a lot of today’s fairly demanding buyers’ demands and requisites.