Trading Up: Snave, Bantry €450,000

The site and the setting are the star appeal in the case of 

It comes on 20 acres of rushy land, running down to a shingle beach at the water’s edge on an inlet off Bantry Bay, where the Coomhola river finds its ocean outlet.

Easily reached from Bantry and Glengarriff (it’s half-way between them, on the N71/Wild Atlantic Way, and just over an hour from the city and airport), the existing dwelling is an old-style, two-bed farmhouse.