House of the week: Castlehaven, West Cork, €800,000-plus

It must be hard keeping up with the Joneses down around West Cork’s chi-chi Castletownshend. 

Houses about here only infrequently come to market, and typically sell for well-above average prices. Latest case in point was the 1750s-built townhouse in the vertiginous village, Bow Hall on a half acre by Castletownshend’s Mall.

It made €1.2m late in 2014 when sold for its US owners the Vickerys, wrapped up by December, having only hit the market in July with local agents Charles P McCarthy.