When first built, apartment blocks at Jacobs Island by the water in Cork’s Mahon might have seemed unusual, especially given the location’s isolation, almost island-like indeed, across the ring road from Mahon Shopping Centre and retail park.

A sound warehouse investment at Cork City’s well-established Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Frankfield, near Musgraves, is for sale as an investment, offering a potential return of 9.6% per annum.

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Within a week of going on the market, No 19 Brookdale in Riverstick got an offer in excess of the asking price of €385,000

Jonjo O’Neill finally broke free of his mid-winter lull as Rose Revived supplied him with his first winner since mid-November in the closing bumper at Ludlow.

Location: Rochestown

Amid rising prices, Applewood may be worth a bite, says Tommy Barker.

TENNIS: Top seeds Rachael Dillon and Lazare Kukalashvili made short work of their respective opponents as the centenary Irish Close Championships continued at Donnybrook LTC.

Location: Little Island, Cork

Sq m: 130 (1,400 (sq ft)

The Offaly mother of a 15-year-old hurler prevented from lining out for his first club has claimed the GAA are bullying her child.

We view a selection of starter homes from around the country.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

We view a selection of starter homes from around the country

Ardmore, Waterford €275,000

THE LOUGH, CORK €295,000

ARDMORE, WATERFORD €195,000

Tommy Barker finds coincidence and variations in two identically-priced homes.

No 11 Somerville is part of the pivotal, Reeveswood scheme at Douglas, Co Cork which sits between two roads into Douglas village and is immediately accessible to the south ring network.

IT mightn’t be “the only Aga on the northside,” as its owner once humorously quipped, but the old range cooker midships here certainly helps anchor 35 Popes Quay to its past.

IT is only a two-bed right now, but there’s room inside and out for lots more beds and building at this south county Cork bungalow home on two acres.

A HIGH hedge shelters the suburban Cork city home Ormond, both from the elements, and from the world outside.

No 1 Halcon Drive, priced just under €250,000, is a good condition three-bed semi-d in Cork’s Tivoli suburb.

WAY back at the height of our property intoxication, four-bed semi-ds in the southern Cork city suburb of Douglas were making €500,00-€600,000 each.

THE asking price is €365,000, €1,000 for every day in the year – and once you’re home, you won’t leave for years.

SET out at the far, suburban-end of the Boreenmanna Road, in Cork city, is Corvalley Court – with the rugby playing pitches of Cork Constitution behind, and the GAA pitch at Pairc Uí Rinn (Christy Ring) almost alongside.

IN VERY good order, and with a good asking price for its Wilton, Cork city location, is 34 Fernwood Crescent, a three-bed semi-detached home with a €285,000 asking price.

THERE’S great amenities for families in the vicinity of Foxwood, up on the higher levels of Garryduff, in Cork’s Rochestown.

THERE are horses for courses — and then there are houses for sites.

FRONT row, or back row? Two similar suburban homes, in the same well-regarded estate, hit the market in the same week with agents Marshs and Property Team O’Sullivan.

A FOUR-BED semi-detached in a Cork southside suburb near major amenities and employers, and on a bus route, for under €300,000? It wouldn’t have come your way at this price level since the early 2000s.

A NUMBER of the solid semi-detached houses in Cork’s Tramore Lawn have had relatively recent upgrades and extensions, but these mid-1900s builds are — or at least were — big enough for large families.

THERE are two developments along Cork’s Old Blackrock Road called Rochelle, picking up the name of a former denominational boarding school of that title.

IT’s a simple, red-brick bungalow, but don’t be fooled, this offers a lot despite its modest package.

A DAM fine site, and a rare planning grant, are two of the selling plusses with some 28 acres of land at Inniscarra, Co Cork.

YOU’ll know it when your ship comes in, at Fort Villas. This elevated residential ridge above Cobh spans all of the maritime traffic and sailing activity in Cork harbour, and with light and views in abundance.

YOU get the best of both worlds with this four-bed house at 25 The Drive, Killeens, just a five minute drive from booming Blackpool where everything is to hand and a further five minutes from Cork city.

ABOUT 90% there is the finish state of 9 Ard Cuain, a big dormer bungalow on a quarter-acre Cork Harbour site.

A large back garden is a selling point of 30, Ardfield Crescent, a Fleming Construction scheme in the Cork suburb of Grange, on the edge of Douglas.