A five-bed farmhouse on three acres near Cork coast

SITES like the this Adamstown, Castletownshend, west Cork farmhouse can’t be rushed: they take time, and nature, to fashion — instant garden makeovers be damned.

This five-bedroom farmhouse-property is selling for €390,0000 and promises traditional county living and creature comforts, thanks to the extension and low-key upgrading.

And, you know, there’s a bit of respect for the past, when even the selling brochure uses the word ‘scullery’ — the original wet-room, surely, and a word that seems to go hand in hand with ‘chores’ — ‘if not ‘skivvy.’