That means there’s going to be very widespread interest in the possibilities coming with this rare property offering, a detached period home, on very decent grounds of scale. The past couple of decades have seen Crosshaven and its surrounding bays’ year-round population soar (pop was 2,500 back in 2016), and the work-from-home phenomenon has, if anything, raised its appeal to a whole new level. Since built around 1850 and facing Currabiny over the Owenabue River and estuary, Beech Crest would since have seen the continuing development of Crosshaven and its bays the move and arrival of the 1720-founded Royal Cork Yacht Club from Cobh to sit almost on its doorstep in the early 1960s the arrival of a rail line in the early 1900s and the spread since of boatyards, boat berths and marinas, piers and, more recently, people. And, as it now comes for sale for the first time in almost 70 years, Beech Crest is as robust and mature as any regal woodland beech, with its origins attributed in historical records to the landowning Hayes family of Crosshaven House, who had 300 years of local involvement with ‘Crosser.’

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