With solitude and dramatic views, Saleens is truly a site to behold

From amidst thorns and gorse, a woman hellbent on finding her ideal site to build a family home, poked out such a beauty, that even if she’d never progressed beyond a tent, she could have happily lived off the view.

In the end, she got the view, the site and the house, on Church Road, Carrigaline, not far from where she and her husband were living in wooded Currabinny.