FLAVOURS of the cost-conscious moment are grow-your-own and allotment gardening — and this affordable country home at Ballydonaghmore, Dungourney, in east Cork, fits the bill with its half-acre of carefully tended ground.

THIS extended and reconstituted cottage on more than an acre of East Cork coastal land could be the perfect full-time home, or else an ideal second home, according to the selling agents.