Look inside: Luxury Kinsale penthouse with sea views for €3.25m

A €3.25 million luxury penthouse in Kinsale, Co Cork, offers sea views from the entire top floor of a former Mercy Convent, now part of the Avila complex. Called Schooner Cove, the four-apartment development’s last remaining unit occupies 297 sq m (3,200 sq ft) and includes three bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms plus built-in wardrobes. Designed by JCA Architects, it features high ceilings, original columns and smoked-glass panel doors separating rooms. An open-plan kitchen/dining/sitting room leads to a terrace, while large renovated sash ecclesiastical windows flood the sitting area with light. The kitchen has a skylight and Italian dark-brown units and ceramic worktops. Outside the complex, landscaped grounds include lawns, granite paving and parking, and Schooner Cove is under a five-minute walk to Kinsale Village. Kinsale Harbour, in the Barrow estuary, is known for fishing and sailing.