$1.1 Million Homes in Cork, Ireland

Tooreen | $1.1 million (€975,000)

A six-bedroom hillside house built over a waterfall in County Cork

This rustic six-bedroom, four-bath house sits over a natural waterfall near the tourist village of Glengarriff in County Cork, in southwest Ireland. Situated in a hamlet called Tooreen, the unusual house has served for years as the anchor to a popular sculpture park in the surrounding woodlands.

Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house in Mill Run, Pa., the three-story house has a giant staircase in a central atrium surrounded by large windows to capture the sounds of the flowing stream beneath it.

Glengarriff has about 800 residents and offers amenities including markets, hotels, pubs and restaurants. Its population expands during the summer tourist season. Activities include kayaking, golf, fishing and cycling, and there are boat trips to Garnish Island, which has formal gardens popular with visitors. Nearby is the Glengarriff Woods Nature Reserve, with hiking trails through about 740 acres of sessile oak woodlands in the shadow of the Caha Mountains.

The city of Cork, with about 228,000 residents, is 60 miles east of the property, as is Cork Airport, which offers regular flights across Britain and continental Europe, and some to North America.

Size: 5,274 square feet

Price per square foot: $214

Indoors: The front door opens to a large atrium with an imposing spiral staircase. There are five large rooms around the atrium, three with internal windows with atrium views. There are also two bathrooms and utility rooms on the first floor.

The spiral staircase ascends to the second-floor landing, leading to a spacious kitchen, a combined dining/living room with a fireplace, and a large bathroom. Off the dining/living room is another sitting room with access to a terrace. A hallway leads to two more rooms that could be used as bedrooms.