Sumptuous detached gated villa in a spectacular setting by the sea

ONCE shabby huts, these villas at Barleycove in Co Cork are what co-operative housing can be.

Chalets built in the seventies around the Barleycove Hotel were privately owned and well worn at the turn of the century.

Working in concert, the owners demolished the old shacks and replaced them with rather sumptuous villas which now snake across the sandy hills on the Mizen.