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BACK during the Cold War period, senior members of the Swiss government bought a west Cork bolt-hole at Liss Ard, near Tragumna.
GOLF courses and houses built in the ground of period mansions became something of a formulaic cliche in the Celtic Tiger era, but many proved viable working models and saved old houses for future generations as well.
BUILT on one of Waterford city’s Golden Mile residential locations, and on an acre of private gardens with a feature pond too, is the big and extended family home Glencarrig.
IF a picture tells a thousand words, then one of John Minihan’s photos of his west Cork home would do instead of a sales brochure, or editorial write up.
FOR those looking for a west Cork retreat, here’s one that is fully formed, fully proven and professionally approved.
YOU don’t lightly make the decision to move to Churchtown – people tend to stay.
IF imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Cork’s Lindville houses have been flattered to the eyeballs.
EVER dreamt of living in Marble Halls? A lot of hard work, and the right motivation, might turn this unlikely looking option into a bit of a dream in its own right.
IT’S going to be an eventful month for Cork builders Castlelands Construction. Just as they launch new A-rated homes in three locations, at significantly reduced prices and with an increased specification and fit-out, they are also in line for two very major planning decisions.
A LOT of house, a lovely setting, and more than a few internal quirks set this house at Dromreagh, Durrus, in west Cork apart from the norm.
MILLION-PLUS house sales – even in Dublin – were rare as hen’s teeth in the comatose year now coming to end, without any recovery signs imminent, either.
Tommy Barker says elegant harbour house has views to die for.
IF renting is the new buying, meet a couple who may well qualify as Ireland’s best tenants – and who were never really tempted to buy.
WHAT is it about Cork and architecture? While cranes were swarming over the capital during the boom, the ‘real capital’ had a handful – at best.
IF you can’t sell your house, or are just stuck for cash in any case, how about selling some of the toys of the Celtic Tiger era?
ONE of Cork city’s most venerable hills now has bookmarks of exceptional note, separated in time by almost 180 years.
WITH 288 houses, plus dozens more unlisted new stock, listed for sale in a town with a population of just 2000, how do you sell 40 houses quickly? Slash prices, that’s how.
Tommy Barker finds an artist’s ‘quarters’ hidden in a large period house.
LOCAL gossip along the Blackrock Road in Cork would have you believe that a couple of new and renovated houses, currently in their finishing stages, are costing their owners €5 million or even €6m to complete.
THE couple behind the conversion of a former Church of Ireland church at Kilgallan, near Westport in Co Mayo — the only Irish building project to feature on Channel 4’s Grand Designs — have put the finished project on the market.
HALF of Cork has watched them being built, in defiance of the economic and housing downturn, tucked into a tight site on Cork’s Rochestown Road.
ALL the hard work has been done here in delivering a “Grand Designs” type of one-off house, in a great woodland and stream-side setting.
FORGET “is there doctor in the house?” It’s now a case of “is there a doctor in the market?”
PERSPECTIVE is everything. The country’s in a recession and Cork is finally getting the shopping it deserves — if this week’s rush to the new Dunne’s Stores outlet is anything to go by.
HAVING searched the entire country for an Irish home back in the mid-1990s, Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer settled happily upon the set piece that is Castlelyons House.
BACK in 2000, the Ballincollig bypass was just a blueprint and the new town centre was still a working army barracks.
AN absolutely great woodland garden, on some two and a half acres, in a “Golden Mile” setting along the Bandon river, comes with Shanagore House.<
THIS seaside cottage is going to fit some new owner hand in glove — at least it did so for its vendor, actor and puppeteer Dominic Moore.
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