Cover Story: Right at home on the range

Kinsale, Cork €695,000

There’s just one slight drawback to buying Creek Cottage — no matter who you are, or what you do to it, Cork and Kinsale people will always refer to it as “Floyd’s place”.

The larger than-than-life, but now lamentably-late TV chef Keith Floyd who died in 2009 washed up on Irish shores in the 1980s and 1990s, falling for a more laid-back lifestyle in and around Kinsale than he would have been allowed in England, as his publishing and television career gathered hectic pace.