The owner of an anti-smuggler watchman’s lookout gets around by car and jet ski Bull Island The exterior of the cottage Garry Murtagh, who shares a private beach with the other residents The living room One of the bedrooms Boats tethered outside the back gate A window with views of the Poolbeg chimneys An aerial view of the other side of the island 6 Bull Wall Cottages, Dollymount, Dublin 3 Asking price: €995,000 Agent: Earnest Estate Agents (01) 872 8808 If you’re going to pay a million quid for a cottage, then it needs to be very special indeed. So how about a former watchman’s cottage set right out into Dublin Bay with its own private beach and one of only seven homes ever permitted to be built on Captain William Bligh’s other ‘island’? Dublin’s Bull Island, linked to mainland by a narrow spit, was the brainchild of the infamous Bligh of mutiny and Tahiti fame. Although, Hollywood may have done a disservice to Bligh in the blockbuster Mutiny On The Bounty .
The exterior of the cottage According to more sober historical sources, the 1789 mutiny against his command by Fletcher Christian had less to do with the bad treatment meted out to the seamen by their captain and more to do with the reluctance of the men to leave Tahiti, its beautiful women and the easy lifestyle the tropical island afforded them. Bligh was apparently no more given to flogging than any other sea captain of the period. Famously, the mutineers overthrew Bligh’s command and set him and.
