The development of Cork’s industrial and employment base from the 1960s saw lots of ‘blow-ins’ decide to settle or build houses along the shoulders of hills east of Cork City, from Tivoli down towards Glounthaune and beyond.

There are plenty of eco-aware build features in this modern Scandinavian-inspired bungalow, built in a rural Irish setting at Cykeel South near Bartlemy in North Cork. 

Glounthaune, Cork €650,000

You could almost date St Otteran’s on Hartlands Avenue in Glasheen from the name, since it was built in the late 1940s at a time when Irish homes typically got saints’ names.

The charms of No 4 Coolmore Lodge have not been lost on flocks of house-hunters intent on a new pecking order, writes Tommy Barker.

Sq m 79 (850 sq ft)

Sq m: 147 (1,581 sq ft)

HOME to the haves and the have-yachts, Currabinny in Cork Harbour is an area where house prices are elevated and sales are rare.

DOWN a leafy avenue of mature, detached houses stands Altamira, a four-bedroom house with an established site at Beech Court, Passage West.

AN 1800s cottage with a substantial addition and a site in Upper Rochestown all add up to des res.

NOHOVAL is one of those little south-Cork villages with a quiet allure.

AN 18th century mill, a mill wright’s cottage an old rustic bridge, (by the mill, of course) plus a site of three quarters of an acre with a babbling brook makes this Ballyfeard house the Merchant Ivory of properties.

GOD Bless the optimism in the naming of this property on Donnybrook Hill, Douglas.

A LINE of soft, yellow houses faces down a valley at Marmullane, Passage West, in Co Cork and the aspect means that each three-storey unit has lower harbour views.

THERE’S a touch of up, up and away at Colowen, Ballinvroskig - the house up by Cork airport has elevated views that go on, and on, an on.

STANDING tall on this new estate off Maryborough Hill, number 15, Ryecroft has a dominating location in this modern housing estate.

LANDSCAPE PARK is another of those discrete locations in Cork city: mature and with some lovely, detached houses, it’s within a brisk walk of the city and five minutes from the Lough.

IT'S the gardens that will catch the eye of viewers for this property at Raffeen Hill in Monkstown, Co Cork.

ANGEL CLIMENT is going home. After 41 years as an organist, choirmaster, composer, pianist and teacher, the Valencia man, (Spain, not Kerry) is retiring and heading to the Orchard of the South, as his home place in Spain is known.

“GET your house in order first, that is, check deeds and title before launching a property on the market,” says auctioneer, Jean Shanahan.

SAN Antonio in Monkstown, Co Cork, is a lovely old property in need of a sensitive owner to restore it to its former grandeur.

LOOKING sweet but small from the outside, this detached house at Frankfield in Cork's southwestern suburbs is a surprise buy, not least because of its five bedrooms, but also because the guide price is pitched at €290,000.

MAYBE it's the high limestone walls surrounding the estate that gives an air of exclusivity to Cherrington in Ballintemple, Cork.