Kya deLongchamps surveys the many attractions of this stone-fronted Georgian residence

Trish Dromey checks out 2 Coolmore Lodge, near Carrigaline, a limestone-built cottage designed by architect Thomas Cundy in 1815.

Summer is coming, and Cork’s tourist attraction the historic Camden Fort Meagher is gearing up for weekend openings, showing off the defensive wonders of the magnificent harbour under its Ram’s Head perch.

Turners Cross, Cork €220,000

The nephew of a gentle, nature-loving, pensioner, murdered in Cork, has appealed to the public to help solve the five-year mystery surrounding the brutal killing.

A READY-to-go site for a large, 3,660 sq ft contemporary-styled four bed home is for sale at Beech Park in Rathcormac.

THE family of Gussie Hornibrook may never find out who murdered him.

BUILDERS try not to let the grass grow under their feet — but in the case of The Beeches, that’s exactly the landscaping plan adapted for this scheme of 13 serviced site.

REFINED Victorian living in the wonderful, lower harbour area of county Cork can be had at a fraction of town prices.

THREE into one does go, in the case of the old mill cottages in Cork’s Ballincurrig.

VIEWS of East Grove, the fabulous period Cork harbour home, and the water are just two of the attributes of Fuschia Cottage, an East Ferry home up for sale as an early 2006 property market ‘find’.

Rose Martin

CHOCOLATE and champagne hampers are on the go this Valentine’s Day/weekend to anyone who takes the plunge — in the house-buying stakes in Midleton.

CREATING space and letting in more light were the top priorities for the owners of a home in Midleton, Co Cork.

IT’S not Terrysland, it’s mine. Thus, along the lines of the Terry’s chocolate orange ad, might speak the impressed viewers to date of Ashbrook.

CLOYNE is perhaps most famous as the home place of Christy Ring, the Cork hurler turned legend.