It could grow on you

With a polytunnel in place and summer on the way, Glenageare comes calling, writes Tommy Barker

The good life beckons at this Glenageare East Cork homestead, a few miles inland of beaches at Ladysbridge. An upgraded cottage on an acre, with one of its two out-buildings now a self-contained guest apartment, it’s a real lifestyle buy for those who like a country and near-coastal location, and enough ground for gardening; it even has a good-sized polytunnel in situ, ready for summer produce, while the grounds around it are home to fruit bushes and lawns.

The entire lot (including outbuilding/workshed) is for sale with Helen Kearney of CCM Property in Midleton, who guides it at €180,000, and who says the main dwelling has been fully re-done, around 2007 when the roof was replaced, and the front and back walls have been insulated with sheepswool.