WATCH: Bandon river property with exceptional water-fronted views

SERENITY: there’s an air of sublime calm and communion with nature, at this home called Rock Castle.

The name makes it sound altogether more rugged than its hospitable reality, reached by road and river, previously on a goods rail line for coal imports, and hard to leave today by any route.

A house for all seasons and tides, Rock Castle is a Bandon riverside residence with boathouse, jetty, pontoon and old, stone outbuildings and stables, on woodland gardens, all on the site of an old castle.