Helena’s home is quite different to other houses we stayed in Ireland, about 12 so far in various counties.
Whereas usually a holiday “home” would rather be like a secondary house, her place truly feels like a home. Cooking knives were sharp (unlike in other places where knives seemed to have been carefully dulled on the Blarney Stone), pots and pans were actually useful to cook food ( unlike other places where pots and pans seemed to have been used to drive fencing posts into the ground), cutlery and tableware all made sense, beds and mattresses could actually be used to have a restful sleep… well you get the idea.
The location is great, although slightly rural, major shops (super value, Lidl, Aldi, butchers..) are literally 6 minutes away. To explore Cork and West Cork you could not have a handier place, Kinsale is just down the road but even day trips to Bantry, Killarney, Schull, Mizen Head, Baltimore are all well within reach.
Finally, after a long day discovering the area you will come back to genuinely stunning 360 degrees views of the pastoral Irish landscape, as the house sits on a high ridge giving you a perfect vantage point to enjoy stunning sunsets, well as long as it doesn’t rain 😉
House is best suited for 4 adults and kids (which we don’t have) but the two kids room looked great, it is also a very child safe place. Helena allowing dogs in her home was a great plus for us as it is not common that holiday homes would.