WATCH: Breathtaking views at Breakheart Hill

The Coach House replacement has a cool, calm and very contemporary feel, writes Tommy Barker.        

The lane-like set of steps up, from sea level towards the higher ground of Scilly in Kinsale harbour, runs by a wooded glen and a tinkling stream, and is called Breakheart Hill — with the name, apparently, coming from the steepness, and heart-pounding gradient through lush greenery, of this convenient but aerobically challenging pedestrian path and steps.

And, set at the more restful and easily-gained bottom end of Breakheart Hill at a spot called the Scilly Bog is The Coach House, a modern build of some note and great, understated quality, bone dry and A3 rated and one that replaced an earlier, slate-hung dwelling on this footprint, all graced by views back over water to the hilly part of Kinslae town, quays and old convent.