Cover story: Comfort meets efficiency in Clonakilty home

Tommy Barker visits a 1970s bungalow near Clonakilty that has been given a tasteful rebuild, complete with high-spec insulation and cutting-edge green building techniques.

THERE’S great air tightness to this low-energy house, rebuilt around an original 1970s bungalow along a scenic stretch of West Cork.

That’s just as well, because on the day the Irish Examiner called to visit (it’s not for sale, just worth admiring), there was a mini-gale blowing outside this house, sited high above the ocean and headlands, fully exposed to the elements and the Atlantic.