Three-bed with guest cottage

WITHIN a walk of three great beaches near Castletownshend, Barnett’s House at Dooneen is, in many ways, the quintessential west Cork hideaway.

Long and low and with its stone construction evident for all to see on the outside, it is a three-bed home with attached guest cottage, on a site of half an acre in a setting between super-pretty timepiece Castletownshend and Tragumna, about five miles from Skibbereen and an hour and a half from Cork city.

Stone weighs heavily here, with stone-flagged floors, stout stone walls, with an open arch stone fireplace in the main 30’ long, by 15’ wide sitting room. This room has a low-slung ceiling, with exposed timber ceiling beams, while the kitchen/dining room has contrasting extra height, with a galleried space overhead, where the ceilings go up to the apex.

The main section has three overhead bedrooms, plus bathroom and a former adjoining stone building has been converted to a one-bed guest cottage, with living room, shower room and overhead lofted bedroom. Outside, there’s a south-facing stone patio/terrace. Gardens are landscaped and include detached stone barn and storage shed.

This farmhouse has oil heating, mains water, and “in the course of the renovation, great care was taken to retain and enhance the period features of the property,” says agent Charles McCarthy, seeking offers over €240,000.