There’s a definite magic about some places, and the remote lakeside spot of Treangarriv in Ireland’s County Kerry — a wilderness of rolling green farmland and majestic mountains — is, without a doubt, one of those enchanting locations.



Brian Spain has been drawn to the area ever since he was a child. “As a boy, I spent every Easter and every August in Dooks, which is the beach close to Treangarriv,” he says. “There are several generations of our extended family who’ve all made this special place their second home. I’d had the idea to buy an old cottage on an acre or two as a restoration project for a long time.”