The Irish Wildlife Trust has logged almost a dozen large wildfires since Tuesday, raging from the Blackstairs Mountains to the Beara Peninsula and from the Knockmealdowns to Killarney National Park, and says most occurred in special areas of conservation.

Trish Dromey on a neatly restored three-bed, well located, city property.

GALLARUS AND KILMALKEDAR, DINGLE

Millstreet, Cork, €69,500-145,000

Showing its age a bit inside, but with huge charm and considerable space plus back yard with pit and parking, is the corner house and family home at 55 Watercourse Road/Bleasby St — just two doors away from the garda station, and thus as safe as houses.

WE continue on the L4911, crossing scenic Cappul Bridge at the head of Ardgroom Harbour. We are immediately in wild country, Tooreennamna and Tooth mountains behind us and the Iveragh mountains across Kenmare River, ahead. After 0.5km, we pass an unpaved roadway going left, with a yellow Beara Way waymark. We could make the nearby parking space our trailhead, shortening the walk by 2km.

WHEN visitors come to Ireland there are some things I feel it’s my duty to share. Taytos, obviously, Barry’s Tea and Clonakilty black pudding.

Forget about your standard ‘gap in the market’ — heading towards 50 years in business, Killarney’s Moriarty family have spotted a second market in the Gap.

GRAIGUENAMANAGH TO ST MULLINS WALK

Cork 8-27 Donegal 0-02

BAILE na nGall means the foreigners’ town, referring to a 9th century Viking settlement at Smerwick, a Norse name meaning the butter harbour.

An ambitious target of €100,000 is being set for supporters of an annual cancer research fundraiser.

Kerry farm auctions are a weekly event for Tom Spillane at the moment and he has now announced the forthcoming auction of another two farm properties — with a total of almost a thousand acres between the two.

CORK CITY €175,000 (OFFERS OVER)

YOUGHAL, CORK €150,000

No 24 Willison Meadows is warm, comfortable and very well finished. Rose Martin reports

This three bed semi is well worth a look, says Rose Martin

The standout feature of this house must be the price which, at €55,000 is a steal in what must be the most under-rated residential area of the city, Rose Martin reports

The reduced price of these homes includes furniture and appliances, Tommy Barker reports

KILLARNEY agent, Billy Hennigan, is seeking €240,000 for this Beaufort area, and scenically-set, family bungalow.

THE curiously-named Mdina is a four-bed bungalow with a number of things going for it, not least its location close to the River Lee at Farran Woods, Co Cork.

A LUSH, fertile parcel of Beauty’s Home is up for sale this week, and joint agents Tom Spillane and Billy O’Shea are looking for strong money for the land at Beaufort, Killarney.

TOWER village is only 10 minutes drive from Cork city and has doubled in size over the last 15 years.

THIS is something else — a house with a site in one of the most built-up areas of Cork’s northside.

THE Killarney Park Hotel, a member of The Leading Small Hotels of The World, is running a special package in conjunction with The Killarney Art Gallery next week.

KNOCKRAHA village is 10 minutes’ drive from the Lee Tunnel and is growing with lots of new housing.

THIS new development of houses near the top of the hill at Churchfield in Cork sold swiftly at above the €300,000 mark when launched over two years ago.

IT’S the site that will bring buyers to this three-bed semi at no 26 Firgrove, in Bishopstown.

BEING prepared to go a couple of miles outside the city can have its benefits.

THE owners of The Island, a five-bed dormer home, went out of their way to make it their own private oasis. Now it’s on offer with a second, sizeable price reduction to encourage buyers to take the plunge.

ARISE, take up your beds — that’s the flower beds — and walk.

Rose Martin finds a gem in wooded little enclave in Glenville village.

ONE of Killarney’s best-known tourist attractions, the Gap of Dunloe, was the scene of a spectacular gorse fire last night.

THE men who own Ireland’s highest mountain have been praised for welcoming 25,000 climbers onto their lands every year.

Donal Hickey