Stunning waterfront view ensures home is Rosscarbery's best addressed 

There is a lot of property in this prime Rosscarbery pitch

Cuan Dor, Rosscarbery

Mill Road, Rosscarbery
€840,000
Size	327 sq m (3,500 sq ft)
Bedrooms	7
Bathrooms	7
BER	C1

While first impressions of Cuan Dor are dictated by the setting, looking west over the lagoon at West Cork’s Rosscarbery, the ones that follow on rapidly during a visit include the site, the size, the scale and scope….and then your thoughts go back to the view, and that setting, especially for sunsets.

Just listed for a family who are now ready to trade down after running a B&B business for a number of years as well as juggling other careers, running a local bar on Rosscarbery’s village for a while and rearing a family, Cuan Dor spans some 3,500 sq ft of space, has seven if not eight bedrooms, but can also be run as a home with attached apartment for rental use, or appreciated by family/adult offspring, friends who might never leave, or for business purposes.

Originally built as a compact bungalow over 50 years ago, it’s been in the current owners’ hands for a couple of decades, and is unrecognisable now after rebuilds, extensions and upgrades, with some top stone work done inside around stoves (in the kitchen, and main reception room) by popular, now-retired local mason Steve Hayes.

The couple with adult daughters now living elsewhere (one’s in Australia) say the location was not just picture-perfect but perfect for them and for their outdoor lifestyle, with the girls and their friends able to drag kayaks over their lawn and drive just across a few yards of the Mill Road to get onto the water of the lagoon: here,there’s also a seasonal water sports/activity centre in well-provided for, adventurous, nature-blessed Ross.

Selling agent Jeremy Murphy says the Mill Road, which fringes the east side of the lagoon by the N71 causeway and estuary, is almost certainly Rosscarbery’s best address, sort of putting the ‘mill’ into millionaire’s row.

However, Rosscarbery has only had a single €1m sale in the past 20 years: that was for a house called Feora, closer to the Warren Strand, sold by Mr Murphy last year and featured in these pages previously. Here at Cuan Dor, he and his joint agent Kieran O’Gorman guide this very well kept and adaptable home at €840,000, and it comes straight on the heels of a €995k listing just last week of Sunny Rock, a similar sized detached, facing Cuan Dor across the lagoon, and easily spotted by motorists going west on the N71 near the Celtic Ross Hotel.

On a sloping site of a third of an acre, this property has four first floor bedrooms, with two en suites, and three/four more at ground level, with three en suites, plus there’s a second kitchen to the back for, in effect, a self-contained apartment which has been used by family and others in recent years.

One daughter and partner who stayed here are now finishing a new-build just on the other side of Rosscarbery, while ‘the folks,’ this house’s departing owners, have renovated and extended a cottage on the same site off the Glandore road, with views back to Cuan Dor.

VERDICT: Landscaping works well on this generous site, tiered to the back with a walk-way up to a sit-out viewing spot with BBQ spot above a substantial detached garage….there’s a whole lot of property to view in this prime Rosscarbery pitch.