AS recently as this year, marina apartments in Shannon-side Killaloe were making €260,000, according to the new Property Price Register — so what value a 10-acre partly developed site nearby, with 30 houses in various states of undress? Try €400,000.

BUILT in the early part of the 20th century by a Major Lefroy, this Edwardian redbrick on the shores of Lough Derg, was renamed St Flannan’s when it was bought in trust for the Bishop of Killaloe in 1954 and has been used as a curates’ and parish priests’ house since then.