Trading up: GUILEEN, Co CORK, €400,000

A CONVERTED two-bed upside-down seaside cottage, with a separate studio and terraced garden across an access lane to beach, might put Brohogue House on a relocater’s map.

The chirpy, renovated cottage is at Guileen, near Whitegate within a 40 minute commute of Cork city — and the place is quiet and ‘yours’ for 95% of the time.

Its key attribute is its setting, in glen-like Guileen, almost close enough to the beach to skim stones from. But, be careful, fall short with your stones, and you might hit the glass windows and Velux of the garden/guest studio that comes with the extra site portion across the lane.