€485,000: The Gun Battery and Cottage is perched above the Shannon estuary at Doonaha, near Kilkee in Co Clare.

Sherry FitzGerald McMahon's Kilrush branch is quoting €485,000 for this picturesque period property, which has been owned by the same family since 1911.

A long private road which follows the coastline opens out to the cottage and truly spectacular sea views. Very much a family home, the five-bedroom house is a cottage in name only, spacious and well modernised, with four acres of shoreline and landscaped gardens. The Napoleonic gun battery is now a pile of stones, albeit an historic one. A meadow runs down to the sea and there is a large vegetable garden. The accommodation includes a big kitchen/livingroom, a second sittingroom, utility and five bedrooms.