Trading up: Garrettstown, Co Cork €135,000

Feel like upping sticks for the sea? Then try Garretstown, for an upwardly, westerly or coastally mobile home option.

Size: 420 sq ft + 300 sq ft 

Bathrooms: 2+2+1 

Bedrooms: 2+2 

BER: Exempt

There are cracking good views from this south/west Cork coastline perch, opposite the shop/cafe at one of Garretstown’s two long beaches, looking east out over Garrylucas towards the Old Head of Kinsale.

Here, agents Sherry FitzGerald Brennan Busteed of Bandon have two mobile homes parked up (and chained down for withstanding Atlantic winter weather gales) on a road-fronting site, with a larger mobile home park behind, for sale all-in for €135,000.

Each is a two-bed, with a bathroom, one has an en-suite also, and each sleeps up to six, they advise.

The beaches, a 15 minute spin from Kinsale and about 45 minutes from Cork, are hugely popular with families, surfers, for coasteering/cliff jumping, while the Old Head golf club is a world-known dramatic destination.

SFBB describes this site as “a very low-maintenance property, ideal for long or short-term breaks, along with a site that offers further potential.”

Apart from the two mobiles (a 420 sq ft Parkstone BK Bluebird, and a 300 sq ft Willerby, with ESB supply), there’s an adjacent wet room with toilet, shower facilities and under-floor heating, septic tank, plus a Belfast-style wash-up sink, handy too for rising beach and surfing gear.

For those into a more permanent pad, Murphy’s Cafe across the road is for sale with Engel & Volkers in Kinsale, guided at €350,000.

VERDICT: Hitch them wagons.