There’s a good mix of house types up at the lofty-sounding Kensington address, atop Clarkes Hill in Cork’s Rochestown, built back in the 1970s for the traders-up and the traders-out of that now-distant decade.

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around the country.

OLD YOUGHAL ROAD, CORK €299,000

THEY built ‘em big in the poshly-named Hilton, back in the early 1980s, and this non-Paris Hilton example is a sizeable southern Ireland home of 3,500 sq ft of living and sleeping space, on a substantial half acre suburban site.

BUILT about a quarter century ago, as an early timber framed house by (the then-pioneering) Noel Parkes, Windsor Meadows is a house in superb condition inside and out, on a prized and private 0.6 acre site just west of Cork city in Waterfall.