Time to saddle up: Saddlefield is back up for the taking. An imaginatively recreated and extended original cottage, on 0.6 of an acre at the top of Cork’s Maryborough Hill, this family home last came to market in the first half of 2013, guiding €379,000. 

Extended cottage Saddlefield now measures 2,400 sq ft and has a lush garden in a suburban-rural location in Cork, says Tommy Barker