Design comes out of the box in West Cork home

There are both stark and Starck reminders, of very different times, at this one-off West Cork home on the verdant banks of the Argideen River.

An infamous eviction took place here in 1886, at Castleview Mills near Clonakilty, when the Hurley family unsuccessfully resisted being moved off their land in a still-recalled act of brutal house repossession.

In the event, the Hurleys’ neighbours, as an act of decency, built them a timber cabin in a nearby field, by a river crossing. Fast-forward almost 130 years and, by sheer coincidence, or some sort of serendipity, the very same field now houses a contemporary twist on the wood cabin.