Tommy Barker eyes up a home in the visionary Jacob’s Island development which he says is maturing nicely.

When first built, apartment blocks at Jacobs Island by the water in Cork’s Mahon might have seemed unusual, especially given the location’s isolation, almost island-like indeed, across the ring road from Mahon Shopping Centre and retail park.

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There was a happy ending at Mahon GC last Wednesday for Jerry Quirke and Miko O’Grady, with a little help from the Irish Examiner.

No 64, Castle Meadows, off the Skehard Road, measures 1,750 sq ft after a two-storey add-on and is priced at €265,000, says Tommy Barker.

Cork’s city councillors have forced through several strategic changes to a major blueprint that will guide development in the busy Mahon suburb for the next 20 years.