Wonder on the waterfront

THERE’S only a handful of houses along the front row of the road around Rossbrin in west Cork – it the most scenic of ways of navigating the distance between Ballydehob and Schull.

For anyone who chooses to take the slower way between the two popular, and seasonally busy, tourist village, the rewards are plenty, and the pace is naturally slow. So, imagine living there?

Houses along this special stretch, right near the slipway and boatyard, only rarely come up for sale, and the last one changed hands just a few years ago, for a sizeable sum and has since been largely rebuilt.