All decked out and waiting for you

’Dooneen’ is a nice place to be on fine summer’s day. Tommy Barker reports

There’ll be plenty of chances to hit the decks at this Dooneen, coastal home, a mix of old house and a contemporary extension, joined by a link section and wrapped in front by a swathe of south-facing decking.

And, apart from a quite sublime setting a couple of miles west of Castletownshend towards Toe Head, five minutes from sandy beaches at Tragumna and Sandycove beach itself, the other cheering fact as it comes up for sale is its price guide: Skibbereen agent Pat Maguire guides it all at €250,000. That’s the sort of price a dead-average bungalow in the locale might still hope to achieve.