Almost an oddity in its location, and a rarity too, is the triangular-shaped Loreto House, off Cork city’s Magazine Road.

There’s something pleasantly self-contained about a cluster of houses at the core of Lima Lawn, an estate of mostly semi-detached homes between Cork city’s Magazine Road and Glasheen Road.

THE terrace of houses at Beechwood Place, on the Douglas Road in Cork is for keeps: An Bord Pleanála has said so.

NUMBER 30, Richmond isn’t exactly the house that today’s demanding, discerning home-hunters want - but its location is so spot on, and its grounds so generous, that viewers will look far beyond what they see on first sight and pay handsomely for it.