Cove site to behold in West Cork

Mixing a blend of old and new is Cove Cottage, an extended former ‘two-up, two-down’ pad with a paddock, near the sea at West Cork’s Ballinglanna.

Home to a mix of permanent and part-time homes, Ballinglanna’s residents are fully in touch with the tides, times and coastal and comings and goings — and have Courtmacsherry and Barryroe just up the road, beaches galore to choose from as well as their own rock cove, and Clonakilty’s a 10 to 15 mile drive to the west. Critically for those who need to get up and down to Cork city, it’s well within the ‘golden hour’ commute time frame.

Selling agent for this lifestyle bolthole is Martin Kelleher in Clonakilty and he seeks offers around €215,000 for this done up home on a third of an acre, and whose best feature is the high-hat slate-roofed sun-room/dining room grafted onto the front of the original dwelling, deservedly opening it up to the sweep of sea views.