Artist's retreat on 35 acres with views to Cape Clear

Schull: €2.75mThree very different homes in the beautiful and ever-popular area of west Cork really take advantage of their proximity to the sea

An idyllic west Cork house on the water's edge is on the market at €2.75 million through Skibbereen agent Charles McCarthy.

Shambala, at Ballyrisode near Goleen and five miles from Schull, is the home of African wildlife painter Terry Frost, who plans to buy something smaller in the area with enough left over for a place in the sun.

The 416sq m (4,200sq ft) house is on the Mizen Peninsula, on 35 acres of rocky land with views to Cape Clear and Crookhaven harbour.

Extended and upgraded by the owner, the interior has the cosmopolitan touch of someone who has travelled extensively and loves to collect. Exposed pitch pine beams run throughout the house and Gothic doors and windows were salvaged from old convents and churches.

In the livingroom, a dry stone fireplace rises to the cathedral roof and a door by the fireplace came from an Indian Rajah's palace.

An office/studio with bookshelves and work space opens to a terrace. There is also an exercise room and huge country kitchen/diningroom.

Upstairs are three bedrooms, a library and enormous bathroom with a Jacuzzi bathtub facing the ocean.

The huge main bedroom has vaulted ceilings, a pine floor (salvaged from a Kenmare convent) and French doors to a balcony with wonderful sea views.