A whole new look

Once home to a ruin, this coastal Kilkern site has been transformed, writes Tommy Barker.

REPLACING a ruin, this Rathbarry coastal home shows there’s merit to taking a clean sweeping brush (and a digger) to select sites. Little more than a heap of stones backed into a hill marked out this Kilkern site for years, looking more like a quarry or creamery wreck than a perch for a new home.

But, look what can be done with a site that had some promise, thanks to views down over Kilkern Lake, the Galley Head lighthouse, the wild Atlantic at surfers’ beat Long Strand, and back towards the woods at Castlefreke as well.