Your very own Hideaway

IT lapped up on the market last year with the guide of €1.2 million, but now, Tidewater Hideaway near Skibbereen, Co Cork, is at an asking price of €900,000 to tempt a holiday season sale.

And it’s a big, multi-faceted property at that, which agent Maeve McCarthy of Charles McCarthy and Co feels will suit the right buyer in west Cork. Set on the water, it was originally a fairly unprepossessing bungalow until vendors the O’Mahony family got their hands on it.

Now, it wouldn’t look out of place in the Hamptons, New York (which on the scale of things, has an equivalent cachet to this part of west Cork) and the Adirondack chairs, creamy colours, along with rope railings and wraparound decking, pay homage to the US east coast nautical style.