Trading up: Schull, West Cork €290,000

Size: 261sq m (2,800 sq ft)

Set a mile uphill from Schull in West Cork, Gabriel Lodge has views over the seaside community, to islands like Cape Clear, out over lots of ocean, and even the Fastnet’s a blink in the distance.

It’s on a site of one-third of an acre, and its boundary has a novel sort of hedge, cut into an up and down sort of castellated pattern for novelty’s sake.