End the search at hunting lodge

A SETTING in the woods with water views, and a bit of period-style Victorian trimmings in a small and well-formed parcel, are key points in favour of Arda Hunting Lodge, at Ardagh, Union Hall, west Cork.

The compact two-storey coastal house has two bedrooms, but there’s a further two in an adjacent stone tower building tucked away behind to the left.

The package, on eight elevated acres and with a quay/slipway for boats, is up above the Glandore-Union Hall bridge, in one of the coastline’s most gloriously scenic settings. A classic boat regatta run at Glandore brings graceful old craft (some almost of the same vintage as this venerable lodge) into view each summer. When first built back in the mid 1800s, this was a hunting lodge for Lord Bandon, says estate agent Maeve McCarthy of Charles P McCarthy, noting that it is the first time in many years it has come up for sale: its vendors are based in Britain, and have had it for several decades.