Substantial site a bonus at Ard Alainn

HOUSE number 8 Ard Alainn has bagged the biggest site in the upmarket Clonakilty development of large one-off homes.

The reason? The vendor was the guy whose family owned the land here that the dozen or so houses were built on, so he pretty much got the pick of the bunch.

Thus, this house on a 0.75 acre site (twice the average in this development on six well-chosen acres) has a back garden which seems to roll onwards for ever, down to a wooded boundary where there’s a decked balcony jutting out over a steeper fall of ground to a stream far beneath, just close enough to make out the sound of rippling water.