New chapters beckon at the premises of one of Cork City’s longest-established bookshops, Connolly’s, as owner Adrian Connolly prepares to retire after decades dealing in old and rare books, new books, and records.

Barrack Street, Cork City €150,000

Time to go back to school, and maths classes, to try and calculate the floor area of 10 The Courtyard – it’s sort like of calculating the area of a triangle.

Sq m: 69 (750 sq ft)

Sq m: 100 (1,070 sq ft)

Uam Var Drive property is on offer at sub-€200,000 price, Tommy Barker reports.

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country

This terrace has the city on its doorstep, plus plenty of room and loads of character, writes Tommy Barker

COBH, CO CORK €300,000

Tommy Barker reports on two houses separated by €50,000 at Gilabbey Rock

We scan a selection of starter homes from around the country

BILLED as “the closest family home in Cork city to the Statue with front and rear gardens” is Clyda, the first house seen on entering Cork’s Sidney Park.

WITH five bedrooms for a price tag of €415,000, the family home Woodcliffe in Glyntown will attract the attention of families aiming to trade up in Cork’s Glanmire.

IDEAL for captains of the high seas coming home to land, Mount Alto in Cobh has been home to captains of industry instead for the past decade or so — it has been a corporate let to MDs of businesses like Heineken and Centocor.

LOTS of space already, all done to a high standard, so 22 Rathmore Lawn is a walk-in job as its owners move out to build anew.

BEDS to the left, bright living areas to the right, and the city down the hill: that’s Anningdale, in a nutshell.

WHEN Danescourt sells, it will be one of the best-value deals in years on its fairly posh residential row. A million euro or so, give or take, was a standard-enough market entry point for similar, mid-sized, detached homes in Cork’s Hettyfield, off the Well Road, in Douglas, a top-notch residential address down several decades.

ALL your storage needs — and then some — may be met with Tisroc. You get a free warehouse with this house sale or, (if storage is more your thing,) a free house with the warehouse purchase.

SILVERTON may well turn to gold for some fortunate — and bank-funded — buyer, able to rise to the lure of a four-bed detached in the highly rated Bishopstown Avenue.

NEWFOUNDLAND Bay Cottage isn’t as far away as you might think — it’s near Nohoval, in coastal Co Cork.

HOME for lunch? A house close enough to Cork city centre to allow you to nip back for a quick sanger out of the fridge and water from the tap might help those watching recession-time budgets.

JUST €5,000 and a few differences separates these two bungalow buys in Tower, near Blarney, Co Cork.

IN 2003, as the property market began to accelerate, a house and site on the Well Road, Douglas, Cork, went on the market at offers in excess of €500,000.

A CARPENTER in the know put his know-how, passion, energy and ingenuity into building Brookside, as bright and fresh today as when it was first built, 20 years ago.

IT MAY be good enough as it stands, but there’s scope for a whole lot of more at 42 Beaumont Crescent in Cork’s tranquil Ballintemple/Blackrock suburb.

INTERESTED in contemporary architecture?

A FIFTH of an acre site is not to be sniffed at — least of all when it’s in the heart of Bishopstown.

THE word ‘enclave’ well describes the setting of Willow Court, off Cork’s Cross Douglas Road, and the naming after the willow tree is also appropriate, as large spreading and billowing willow trees stand sentinel at its entrance.

FORGET selling to the ‘great unwashed’, this Norwood Court house site in Cork is definitely pitched at the squeaky clean.

ROCHELLE Court, an apartment and townhouse scheme, was built under two years ago on the grounds of the former Rochelle School.

WHILE the southern suburbs of Cork city have lots of new developments, Bishopstown is a bit behind when it comes to housing estates.

ANNMOUNT is one of the “best addresses” in Glounthaune, a short haul east of Cork city and the Jack Lynch tunnel, home to elevated homes with harbour views.

THE long back garden will be the clincher in the sale of ‘Eldon’ — at 120 feet it’s perfect for families and means extensions won’t eat into the house’s long green piece of ground.

ONE wonders what the asking price for this property would have been last year.

OLDER in style, and on a road where there’s been little change since houses were built on it in the 1930s (many of the occupants are originals too!) is 33 Avocaville, semi-detached family home on St Anne’s Drive, in Cork’s Montenotte.

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’.

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

Tommy Barker says cleverly enhanced city pad is ready to move into.

MID-1900s bungalows north and south of the river Lee, in mature areas, are on offer with about €50,000 between them.

THERE a couple of hideaway cul de sacs in the U-shaped Marble Hall Park in Cork, a first stopping off point leaving the city and heading out the Douglas Road.

TUCKED in off the far, Blackrock end of the Old Blackrock Road, and away almost in a world of its own, is Victoria Villas, essentially a couple of houses on the entrance way to a grander, detached house that really is in a world of its own.

CORK City FC supporters in need of a house will be thrilled with the latest offering from Jarlath Boyd of HOK who is seeking €320,000 for 55 St Anne’s Park — it’s a few yards from ‘the Box’ at Turner’s Cross and almost offers a season ticket for soccer supporters.

ESTATE agent Jarlath Boyd has a few strings to his selling bow with a Rochestown house called Sherwood — and it is no robbery at €550,000, he says.

There are plenty of strokes left in the Irish property market, but the house Rydal pulls some of the best — a cracking Cork location, detached house status, and enough room in its grounds for a Big Brother-like pool.