Is Kinsale Ireland’s most expensive town to buy a home in 2025?

With €1m homes dominating listings and entry-level prices creeping above €500k, can average buyers still afford Kinsale?

Kinsale, Co Cork, where a quarter of the current available homes available for purchase are priced in excess of €1m. Picture Dan Linehan

It's the stuff of legends, the days in England, when lodging houses supposedly had signs in windows saying ‘No Irish need apply.’ Is Kinsale’s property market getting close to the same point?

A cursory scan of prices in estate agency windows and online property portals for places with a Kinsale address certainly might give that clear impression — of the 60 to 70 sale offers in and around Kinsale and the coastline, 15 of them have asking prices in excess of €1 million, and with buyers often jetting or sailing in from overseas.