Making waves on the coast: Goleen, West Cork €260,000

Sq m 196 (2,100 sq ft)

THERE’S space galore at this Goleen home — with its five bedrooms and decent amount of rooms, it can sleep up to 12 people, so it’s ideal for families getting together, and holidaying together.

No 11 Rockview is on the Barleycove/Crookhaven side of the far-flung West Cork village of Goleen. It’s in as pretty a spot as you’ll find along this stretch of the Wild Atlantic Way, with the signature point Mizen Head a few miles further out the peninsula. Goleen lays claim to being the last parish in the south-west of Ireland, before America — and the Fastnet rock and lighthouse off the coastline is sometimes known as ‘Ireland’s Teardrop’, as it was the last sight of Ireland for 19th century and early 20th century emigrants.