Private cove, 13 acres part of Schull property bonus

SCHULL has some of west Cork’s dearest properties, with water views at a price premium. The winsomely-titled Dingle Dells doesn’t have stunning water vistas, but it does have some things as good or even better — shoreline, land, and a private shingle cove.

A vastly re-worked, but in part 100-year-old stone-built dwelling now with 1,400 sq ft of space, this is a rare buy, in a rare setting out by Ballyrisode, one of the Schull area’s favourite beaches.

This two-storey house has three bedrooms, and a good deal of comfortable living space.

It is on 13 acre of land, albeit not the sort of land farmers would pay big money for, as any grazing is limited. Think lush and dense over and undergrowth, ferns, furze, gorse and colonising greenery, with walking trails through mature woodland and glen, with a stream alongside.

Selling agent Charles McCarthy in Skibbereen seeks €600,000 for the mix at Dingle Dell and observes “it’s very well presented and has an attractive rustic charm, 15 minutes from Schull and with its own direct private access to the sea and a beach. Few coastal places can boast such features.”

There’s a dining area in a front add-on, off the main 16’ by 14’ living space (complete with solid fuel stove,) divided by a curtain under beamed ceilings, a kitchen with painted units and painted concrete floor and Rangemaster cooker, shower room and ground floor study. One of the three bedrooms has en suite shower room.