Stand-out house will keep owners in touch with tides

DON’T spare the rod at Rock House — in fact, a fishing line out the window of this former granary building near Kinsale could well net a healthy dinner of mackerel, pollock or more.

Back on the market at a vastly reduced asking price after a period on the rental market, this stand-out property, a detached three-storey home by the water’s edge at Sandycove, promises to keep its new owners in touch with the seasons, elements and the tides. Heck, it even has its own slipway for launching small craft and dinghies right by its back door.

It now carries an asking price of €800,000 with agents Victoria and Johanna Murphy, who previously had it floated at a very aspirational €1.9 million back in 2007 — as the tide drained out on the Irish property market.