Good life beckons at Downeen

ROCHES COTTAGE, at Rosscarbery’s Downeen, will suit a range of buyers.

It is within a walk of the reinvigorated Rosscarbery village in west Cork, and within a shorter walk of pretty Mill Cove, with its sheltered slip, pier and cove, ideal for pottering about in a boat or kayak.

Nearby are good beaches, pitch and putt and tennis, a golf driving range and quiet roads to explore, while the main road will get you back to Cork city via Clonakilty in a little more than an hour.

The property, off the Glandore Road and built in the early 1900s, has sea views and these are best seen from the garden or the main upstairs bedrooms.

Best of all is the price, guided at €240,000, and the fact that the vendors have done a good deal of renewal work over the past two years, including a new kitchen.

It is an easily managed semi-detached cottage, on a deep site with south-facing sea views. The adjoining house/semi has just had a very considerable investment, with large ground floor extension and overhead terrace off the main bedroom to maximise the views, and shows what could be done.

The cheery-blue cottage has a living room with open fireplace, kitchen, ground floor bathroom and four bedrooms: one of the first-floor bedrooms is reached via the main bedroom, so if not needed for a child could be a den, office, dressing room or en suite.

Selling agent Jeremy Murphy says the place is a good buy and needs some further modernsiation. The site size is good and deep, with some concrete sheds and mature boundaries, and it has a long concrete drive able to take several cars, with an overgrown side garden crying out for reinvention for a veg patch. Just harvest the seaweed for fertiliser, and the good life beckons.