House of the week

Faced with stone from Sneem, facing down to Derrynane and Kenmare Bay, and facing up to Dark Sky Reserve stars and nighttime galaxies via a diamond-shaped feature window, all to a musical backdrop of bass notes heard through open doors from an Art Deco baby grand piano once owned by booming-voiced English actor Brian Blessed... truly, there’s a lot going on to engage the senses at Arcadia.

Called after the Greek word for a hillside idyll and pastoral perfection, Co Kerry’s Arcadia by Caherdaniel is a 2003-built, irregularly-shaped architect designed one-off home, just below the Ring of Kerry, on a slope cascading towards the National Park at Derrynane House, three kms from some of Europe and the Wild Atlantic Way’s most beautiful beaches.