Shanagarry in Ballycotton offers quiet retreat in a haven of artisan crafts and cooking

This five-bed bungalow with bags of potential boasts some illustrious neighbours, writes Tommy Barker.

There’s some quiet exalted company, top cuisine and craft workers supreme, surrounding this modest-seeming Shanagarry bungalow, on an acre of currently dormant, winter-slumbering gardens, in the east Cork coastal village near Ballycotton and beaches.

The long-time home of the late, sociable former Heineken Ireland export manager Bob Kennefick and his wife Una, this five-bed home was built in 1972, and is now for sale, guided at €310,000, by Midleton estate agent Adrianna Hegarty, who has six early viewings booked in already for Monday next.