Holiday home is a delight inside and out, close to Union Hall

NEAT and neatly set, Ballinatona Cottage is a west Cork holiday home to covet.

The period cottage wears its stone exterior with some grace, exposed all around to show its handiwork of over a century ago, matched with equal skill in the last decade or so by the added-on low stone wall of the sunroom extension on the gable wall.

Setting is at Ballinatona, a couple of miles from Union Hall in west Cork, and near boating and bathing facilities as well at Squince harbour, Reen pier and the rest of Castlehaven harbour’s inlets.