Coastal Living: Top tier prices reflect the joy of living by the sea

Coastal property prices remain consistently high, not least in Munster where values are up 10% in the last year and forecast to rise another 5% in the year

Coolmain Castle is Munster's 2025 property prize, guided at €7.5m by joint agents Hodnett Forde and Lisney Sotheby's International Realty. Will the Disney family's private retreat attract interest from Stateside? 

Irish coastal property has had an appeal for quite some time, since, oh since around the time of the Viking invasion, well over 1,000 years ago.

Not only did the Vikings stay, but they turned small backwaters into major port towns, and even cities such as Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Waterford along the coast, lured by back-up rivers for inland trading and raiding.