BUILT in the late 1990s, and in the same ownership since, this Ringacoltig home on Cork’s Great Island has all the marks of being designed and built by someone ‘in the know’.

PLANS by the land-owner for a further five houses in the upmarket Lindville development, on Blackrock Road in Ballintemple, Cork, to be built on a designated green area, have recently been shot down by Cork City Council.

AND, they’re off, with yet another house joining the sale race at the Paddocks in Cork.

Tommy Barker contends that you can’t beat period-style character.