WANT a bargain? Want a big house with room to spare?

IT’S almost unnecessary to say that a house is dropped in price these days, but Crean, Athlacca has dropped since it’s been on the market.

A LOT done, more to do at this house at Coolyduff, Inniscarra, Co Cork. A 3,000-footer, most of the hard labour is complete but some finishing remains.

THE acre of gardens at Roancarrig have clearly been a labour of love for decades. But, now down-sizing time has beckoned for its retired vendor, a well-known senior medic and a man who lent his professional services to west Cork’s lifeboats, Life-saving on several fronts has been a forte.

WHAT a house. Put a wish list together for the average self-builder and it’s here at Currahaly, Farranes.

A CONTINENTAL European built this split-level, 2000 sq ft house just to the west of Clonakilty in west Cork. While its setting couldn’t be mistaken for anywhere else, its interior feel is pleasantly different, with lots and lots of windows to bring the interior/exterior contrast home.

IDEAL for an equine enterprise, a 14.5-acre holding with full planning permission for a spacious dormer dwelling in Kilworth, Co Cork, is a ready-to-go option for buyers.

BIG, wide and solid — this Lissarda farmhouse reflects the prosperity of its earlier farmer-builders and now shows a new face to the world.

THIS is a serious spread on the outskirts of Cork city and with its top-class equipment and layout, it’s certainly going to appeal to horsey enthusiasts.

THEY might not vote Green but people are definitely voting green with their money at Castlelands’ Castlepark Village in Mallow.

WREATHS will be laid at sea next month on the sites of a double trawler tragedy as part of a massive cross-channel fundraiser.

YOU can wear the green and wet the shamrock at Fuschia House, an intriguing village-centre home with green-painted facade in west Cork’s pretty Courtmacsherry.

JUST in around the corner of Rathmore Lawn, off the South Douglas Road in Cork, is Lios Muire, a three-bedroom semi with space to spare.

GOOD value for Cork’s Rochestown Road, especially considering this detached house has five bedrooms — that’s the pitch of Terence O’Leary of Property Partners O’Mahony Walsh for 33 Newlyn Vale on the Rochestown Road.

SET on Limerick’s popular North Circular Road, Monteloup is a mature 50-something-year-old family home that ticks an awful lot of the right boxes for family buyers.

Tommy Barker is impressed by this upgraded Lough property.

TWO down, two to go — that’s the update at The Paddocks in the picturesque village of Coolagown, Fermoy, where four large, detached houses have been built.

IT’S a ruin — but more than that it is a site with scope for much, much more.

Tommy Barker reports on a luxury home than was once a reptile farm.

A BUNGALOW, a big bungalow, and one with a few touches that lift it above the ordinary.

A TERRACED cottage at4 Cornelscourt Cottage in Foxrock, Dublin, needs complete renovation but it’s got period charm and a great address — so Lisney expects lots of interest in it when it goes for auction on May 31.

IF THE cliche 'development follows roads' is anyway true, then it is only a matter of time before the land with Knockanemore House gets extra value added to it.

IF THE cliche ‘development follows roads’ is anyway true, then it is only a matter of time before the land with Knockanemore House gets extra value added to it.

A CUTE little cottage and an acre, in the East Cork village of Rostellan, might suit the starter or ender market.

Tommy Barker profiles a niche scheme of eight two-bed homes being aimed at retirees.

THE YARD next door, with outbuildings, adds to the utility of 70 New Street, a large Macroom town centre family home up for sale in smart order inside and out.

THERE’S an expression used for when things are under consideration, that a person is ‘taking a view’ on it.

WATER frontage has come up trumps yet again in the smooth sales of properties, in West Cork and West Waterford, with the Blackwater now also firmly ensconced as a location for quality lifestyles.

THERE’S nothing like local enterprise. In a region where the blow-in was the catalyst for a cultural revolution, it didn’t take long for locals to see the marketing potential of the West Cork brand.

SPANKING new and just 15 minutes from the village of Glanmire, outside Cork city, this detached one-off offers roomy accommodation for buyers who want to merge the country life with city jobs, and for whom commuting is not an issue.

MINUTES from the Lee Tunnel, this 3/4 bedroomed house at 16, Oakfield Park, Glanmire is on offer at the moment through Terence O’Leary of Property Partners, O’Mahony Walsh.

Tommy Barker says the use of Italian craftsmen reflects the care with which this West Cork farmhouse has been renovated.

CLONAKILTY’S Glebe House, on the town’s landmark Emmet Square, has had its Easter Rising.

IT’S surprising that, in the Celtic Tiger boom, a town as historic and pretty as Lismore isn’t swamped with holiday home developments.

TWO miles from Clonakilty in Co Cork, Shannon Vale is close to the west Cork town’s Technology Park.

IT'S a sure sign we have reclaimed our history when a new development in Kenmare, Co Kerry, can be called Cromwell's Court.

Property Partners has added 10 new members to its network, bringing its number of offices to over 70 nationwide.

IF YOU go down to the woods today - around Ballyduff, perhaps - you could be in for a big surprise.

THERE are some properties that cannot be neatly slotted into a category and Abbey House in Courtmacsherry is one.

DUBLIN auctioneer Douglas Newman Good is launching a new nationwide franchise operation with the aim of knocking Sherry Fitzgerald from its number one slot.

YOU mightn’t have to cook the books to see a tax advantage in an East Cork holiday home development — it plans to make the adjoining Ballymaloe Cookery School a source of rental income.

A HOUSE in Skibbereen's rural 'millionaire's row' is up for sale, at a price a bit less than a millionaire's ransom; over €450,000 is being sought for Glebe Marsh.