Stylish looks at impressive Ard Chuan

ANYONE thinking of building a contemporary-designed and wholly modern new house would do well to travel to Ard Chuan, the Passage West location that lives up to its name, high above a sweeping river bend in Cork harbour.

A wide range of new homes, most of them contemporary in style and showing lots of use of cedar, glass, zinc, stone, slate and eco-features, have been built here, largely in wholly modern takes on the dormer outline.

A development of serviced sites at Marmullane, opposite the Highlands, it met the dreams and aspirations of more than a dozen people keen to self-build, and to come up with their own unique house design, at a time when stand-alone sites for one-offs are rare as water hens’ teeth.