ALONG and bustling history comes with Riverbank House and Quay, a River Bandon-set home that gives its owners the chance to sail the seven seas — if they start off leaving on a high tide.

Bandon, €298,000

THE former Bandon, Cork Road HQ of Fleming Construction — in receivership and with group debts of €1bn — is for sale.

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country

FIVE years old, and just a five-minute walk from Bandon town centre, is 7, The Pines, in Canons Wood.

THIS is one of the sweetest-looking properties to come on the farm market in south Cork this year — an ideal, roses-round-the-door retreat.

COOLIM, Allen Square, Bandon, is a characterful, detached bungalow close to Hamilton High School in a solid, residential area of Bandon, Co Cork.

THE Olympics might be wrapping up this weekend, but it isn’t too late to get wrapped up or wreathed in laurels, if you house-hunt just up-river of Bandon town in west Cork.

LAUREL WALK is the D4 of Bandon — or its Sunday’s Well, if a local comparison is more appropriate.

BUILT more than 200 years ago, this old farmhouse is in the middle of the mid-Cork countryside at Bengour West, Newcestown.

THIS bungalow near Bandon town in west Cork is a tasteful buy.

WHITEWASHED and simple, this cottage in Castlepark hardly looks like a million euro property?

TAKE your pick. Two houses on two sites of one acre each just off the main Cork/Macroom road offer an almost identical choice to trader-uppers.

NEW kids on the block, Sherry FitzGerald Brennan and Busteed of Bandon are offering a 12-house scheme of detached houses in Courtmacsherry, Co Cork, at the moment for builders, Bandon and District Homes.

LOOK, and learn. You can sense an architect’s hand at work in 3, Main Street, in Innishannon village. In fact, the only surprise is the fact this house was made over as far back as the early 1990s.