House of the Week: Lagoon view is a location for a good life

There aren’t too many Irish properties that can lay claim to views over a lagoon, but in West Cork’s Rosscarbery, some can.

Set out along the Mill Road, Burgatia, on the edge of the picturesque coastal village and square, is a stretch of road facing west, home to about two dozen detached homes of various sizes. Increasingly set in two tiers as new builds creep in, pretty much all of them face west, overlooking the several acres of lagoon that’s such a feature of Rosscarbery’s attractions, and it’s fed by fresh sea water twice daily on rising tides via a pipe under the N71.