Incredible shoreline setting for Cork house on a Wild Atlantic Wave

Tommy Barker hears how events long ago and far away sculpted the shoreline near this West Cork cottage.

Incredible shoreline setting for Cork house on a Wild Atlantic Wave

Tommy Barker hears how events long ago and far away sculpted the shoreline near this West Cork cottage.

There would be a great ocean view from this diminutive Long Strand home called Castlefreke Cottage — if it hadn’t been for the devastation wreaked in 1755, by the Great Lisbon Earthquake, and the tsunamis which it unleashed.

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