A fresh, maritime home around picturesque Cork harbour

Tommy Barker visits a recently-refreshed home in the lovely East Cork village of Whitegate.

THERE’S a lovely end-of-the-road feel to Whitegate in Cork harbour... go much beyond the water-fronting village and the roads seem to narrow to a point.

The busiest, which is almost always quiet, leads to the sentinel lighthouse at Roches Point, witness to more than one or two shipwrecks in its day, yet able to claim on balance that it has kept safe many thousands of seafarers’ lives.