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.