Starter Home: Drinagh, West Cork

Ebor Cottage in Drinagh near Skibbereen, breathes life and modernity into a building that started out in a more traditional style, writes Trish Dromey.    

Ebor Cottage in Drinagh isn’t the two-up, two-down a West Cork cottage used to be — now it’s open plan, modernised and a lot more interesting.

The transformation was carried out by UK owners who bought it as a holiday home four years ago. “They knocked an internal wall to create a spacious kitchen/living area — they also reorganised the rooms upstairs and completely revamped the property ” says auctioneer Henry O’Leary.