Courtyard home is a catch in Baltimore

Tommy Barker on an architect-designed courtyard home on the outskirts of a booming tourist hotspot.

Built to an architect’s plan in 2002, and extended in 2007, is this sizeable, stone-built enclave West Cork home, just a mile from back-to-booming Baltimore village.

Location is in a spot called Ballylynch, on a height above the road from Skibbereen as its curves around to the final run into Baltimore, and this big property on a decent 12 acres of ground has views over the inner section of Baltimore harbour, down towards Church Strand.