Easy primping options at affordable €295k West Cork’s Primrose Cottage

CARRYING a charming name is the compact West Cork farmhouse-style home, Primrose Cottage, a hideaway promising tranquil countryside living, in a quiet rural setting between Skibbereen and Drimoleague.

Likely to be a century old or so, Primrose has the feel of a two up, two down, but one that has had modest add-ons in the past few decades — including a full width sunroom/conservatory to the front, and a rear single-story addition with a living room and the home’s sole bathroom.

It has been owned by a couple from England who had plans to live here full-time when they bought about 15 years ago, but they made less use of it than they’d first intended, says auctioneer Ray O’Neill of Sherry FitzGerald…