Tommy Barker says Ashdene’s a recultivated period beauty.

Time hasn’t stood still at Cloonlara, a long bungalow home of more than 1,650 sq ft at Rathankar, between Rochestown and Monkstown in Cork.

There’s kerb appeal to the front of this 1920s Montenotte semi-detached home up at 27 St Joseph’s Drive - and, if you were to pass by the back garden, it’s even more appealing.

Sixteen acres of land, some interesting history and a scenic location in one of Kerry’s best known tourist spots should make Askive House in Parknasilla very attractive to foreign buyers.

A cheery, warm yellow wall colour sets off the stone gable facade and low sun room walls at Kenby, a large five-bed family home on over an acre, about a 15 minute commute from Cork city’s suburbs.

The builders are coming to Cork’s Skehard Road, following on the €850,000 auction sale last week of a house on 1.25 acres there, and with a dozen or two dozen new homes now expected to replace that old five-bed dwelling and its garden. 

Sq m 277 (2,970 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 110 (1,185 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 140 (1,500 sq ft)

A house that’s easy on the eye — and even easier to live in. And, now, Rock House can easily be all yours, if you have €695,000 or so to spare.

Ardfield, West Cork €375,000

BALLYPHEHANE, CORK €215,000

No 30 Kilbrody, Cork has a classical look and feel inside, writes Tommy Barker

JOURNEY’S End towers above its setting in more ways than one — the extra-sized family home on a large plot is on the very uppermost site in Towering Heights, Tower village close to Blarney.

Tommy Barker uncovers a former coastguard’s home in Waterford washed by a fresh tide.

Mogeely property shining bright

JUST as the political/economic cliche of our times is “we are where we are,” the property sale equivalent is “we work with what we have.”

EXTENDED a few years ago, both off the kitchen and the back family room, is 56, Upper Beaumont Drive, in Cork’s Ballintemple suburb.

Tommy Barker says Maryborough Woods property has had a brush with genius and altered bedroom tallies, too.

THE owner of the pristine Ard na Gowan admits to loving the heat – and that’s why she’s on the way to northern Italy to live.

ARDMORE’S Michelin-starred Cliff House Hotel has brought the rich, the famous, and those in need of pampering and fantastic food to the west Waterford seaside setting.

SITES like the this Adamstown, Castletownshend, west Cork farmhouse can’t be rushed: they take time, and nature, to fashion — instant garden makeovers be damned.

DONE up less than a decade ago, this early 1900s Waterford home, Glencoragh Lodge, at Newtown still has a modern edge to its past.

Tommy Barker says this semi-d has the right interior design looks.

Tommy Barker visits a period property that’s been meticulously restored.

Rose Martin visits an architect-restored farmhouse that’s user-friendly

Tommy Barker soaks up the old world charm of a lodge full of character.

CONSIDERABLY and quite smartly extended, Frankfort, a five-bedroomed semi-d on Cork’s Cross Douglas Road packs quite a punch, and comes with a €650,000 asking price via agent Conor P Flynn.

THERE’S been a hot market response to the bungalow called Coole, a mid-1900s three-bed home on a delicious one-third of an acre site, above the Lee Road in Cork.

THERE are perhaps five residential estates laid out between the parallel front and back Douglas roads, and houses between them are fast growing in demand and value.