Decent dormer is set in stone on spectacular site

This architect-designed home is a Drombeg stone perch that is cool, calm and contemporary, writes Tommy Barker

WELCOME to Cregg, Glandore, and to the modern stone house that squares the circle of the nearby megalithic Drombeg stone circle.

Drombeg’s one of the country’s most famous prehistoric monuments with its circle of 17 standing stones including one recumbent one said to have been an altar, plus a nearby ‘fulacht fiadh’, sort of giant cooking trough, all in spectacular scenery two miles inland from the Atlantic and Glandore Harbour. The excavated remain is much visited, studied, speculated upon, commanding a low-key brooding presence with its links over millennia.