Lower price for four-bed home

COMING down the property price scale ladder, rung by rung, is this west Cork new-build in a coastal village setting.

No 3 an t-Ard is one of four broadly similar 2,400 sq ft two-storey houses built in Ardfield village and launched at the market’s absolute apex. In summer 2006, they went for sale each priced at over €730,000.

One met the asking price, which was even back then on the uppermost end of the scale for pretty Ardfield, five or six miles from Clonakilty.