You might go a bit adrift, on a first trip at least, out to Ballyglass, Grenagh to this dormer home up for sale, but as any local will tell you, the roads quickly become very familiar.

It’s like a showhouse, says estate agent Fiona Waldron of this smartly-kept and equipped four-bed detached family home at Cobh’s College Manor, a popular scheme on-high by Carrignafoy, with a mix of house sizes.

There’s been a swift uptake, and an early offer too, on the arrival for sale of 16, Orchard Avenue, an end-of-the-line three-bed semi in Midleton’s popular Castleredmond development out by Ballinacurra.

There’s practically a new home feel to the interior of 3 Douglas Hall Mews, despite the fact it’s coming up on 30 years of age: it’s because its owners did it all up from top to toe, when they moved in just five years ago.

A three-bedroomed semi-detached house at 67A Meadowgrove, in the Westwood development off Carrigaline’s Ballea Road, is guided at €225,000 by its selling agent Fiona Waldron of Jeremy Murphy Associates.

There are two sources of viewing interest being shown in this clean, modern Tower, Co Cork, bungalow, and they are more or less at far ends of the age scale.

Soaring demand for houses in one of Cork city’s award-winning architectural gems is pushing prices upwards.

Location on the city end of Cork’s Ballinlough Road is paired with that old chestnut — potential — as key selling points for this two-bed townhouse.

The former home of a Lord Mayor is tiny, but it’s centrally located.

Tommy Barker says imagination is the key when it comes to doing something magical with this derelict chalet/house near Crosshaven.

City proximity, some original class features and opposite Ashton School.

High stone walls line Churchyard Lane in Cork’s Ballintemple, but the duplex apartments at Templehill House manage to overlook them in any case. 

There’s a stealthily growing appreciation of Modernist architecture in Ireland, and abroad, and now another chance to buy into an award-winning 1960s housing scheme in Cork’s Blackrock has come along.

Carrigaline, Cork  €210,000

Heron’s Wood, Carrigaline, €220,000

Victoria Avenue, Cork Cost: €275,000

There were four house types built at the 33-unit scheme Mitchell’s Court, in Kerry Pike, just a short haul up the shouldering hills of Cork heading towards Blarney — or, towards Kerry, if you were to take the old butter roads.

Sq m: 108 (1,195 sq ft)