House of the week: West Cork €1.5 million

Size: Sq m 370 (4,000 sq ft)

Did Ireland ever have as many waterfront houses as it had this past, flood-riden week? Homes and streets along the length and breadth of the country, along the coastline and up and down major rivers, found water lapping at their thresholds (or beyond) — inadvertently, thanks to flooding, from the seas and the skies.

But, at West Cork’s Blind Harbour House, the water, right up to its boundaries, is all part of the package, charm and sales appeal.