Trading up: Ahakista, West Cork €100,000-plus offered

Mere decoration won’t do much to improve this Ahakista West Cork house, called the Anchorage — it’s as close as you’ll get to sinking beyond rescue.

Set near the evocative, calming stone sculpture memorial to the victims of the Aer India bomb atrocity whose 30th anniversary comes around in June 2015, this one-off house has always had owners from overseas — first Dutch, then two sets of UK occupants, one a WW2 veteran.

And, now, as it comes for sale in absolute, wringing wet rag order after lots of water ingress and damage, another purchaser from abroad seems most likely.