Video: Your home could be a Fortress in Ballydehob

Tommy Barker wrestles with coastal properties to attract overseas buyers around west Cork’s Ballydehob.

WAS EVER a home so well named, as The Fortress? Sounding like the name of a TV wrestling champ, Ballydehob’s Fortress is quite simply an extraordinarily muscular build, along a scenic stretch of prized West Cork coastline at a pretty spot called Foilnamuck, modelled along old stone mill lines.

And, The Fortress’s passing wrestling analogy is entirely geographically appropriate for Ballydehob, as one of its proud sons, Danno O’Mahony, became world wrestling champion in 1935, defending his title for the next year a startling 125 times, sort of the Conor McGregor of his day, only with a far busier schedule.