Trading Up: Toe Head, West Cork; €245,000

What better way to end this year’s run of Irish Examiner Property and Interiors, than with a home called Journey’s End?

As we prepare our next edition, January 2, for 2016 Previews, 2015 Reviews, and cull gossip, snippets and the highlights of a recovering property market and resurgence of interest in coastal property, Skibbereen estate agent Pat Maguire may be donning the oilskins to show this scenic Toe Head home; appropriately, it’s called Journey’s End, along the Wild Atlantic Way, and is set to be in new ownership for summer 2016.

He guides the well-kept, and several times extended, detached home on an half acre with views at €245,000, and it’s set just off the circuit out from prosperous Skibbereen to pretty Castletownshend (two miles from this house) and also close by are beaches at Tralispean and Tragumna.

The road it is on is a cul-de-sac, popular with cyclists taking a detour off the biking loop, and the area is home to a number of exclusive one-offs.

And, there’s a very substantial multi-million euro offer and property mix/estate nearby expected to come to market as a headline maker in 2016.

More modest on all fronts, Journey’s End is a well-kept home which look bungalow-ish on one side, towards the road, but is more storey and a half to the back, and has a living room with stone fireplace, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and on its end gable is a sun room, glazed on three sides, bathed in light, and blessed with views.

VERDICT: The start of a journey for 2016 and beyond?