House of the week

ONE careful lady owner — the term, often applied to a second-hand car sale as a sort of badge of tender, loving care, can equally, and probably even more appropriately, be applied to the Cork home called Spanish Point.

This one-off 2,000 sq ft quality house, overlooking the Owenabue estuary, gets its name from its owner’s birth-place, Spanish Point on Co Clare’s wild and rugged coastline.

“When I went looking for a site to build on, I said I wanted the roar of the Atlantic in my ears,” recalls this house-proud owner, who instead settled for the quiet of a cul-de sac off the Currabinny Road, within a few minutes’ walk of Carrigaline, south of Cork city.