The latest show home at Kinsale’s Cluain Mara may be down in size, but not down in style, says Tommy Barker. 

A passion to build a family home with respect for the environment brought a young family to Lisnacrilla, a rustic spot just inland of Kinsale close to the pretty hamlet of Brownsmills.

Size: 155 sq m (1,650 sq ft)

A long renovation process has finally borne fruit for this beautiful 400-year-old complex near Kinsale, writes Tommy Barker

NOT only have the boats sailed or sunk, but the tide has run out on a Cork harbour site up for sale, with a lapsed planning for 72 apartments.

Tommy Barker finds a three-storey decent-sized family home with a high comfort factor on all of its levels

Oysterhaven property should have no problem attracting the interest of the super rich, Tommy Barker reports

MOVE straight in? Extend? Knock? Don’t be hasty.

THE views are the thing with a Kinsale bungalow/site for sale, with a €1.4 million price guide.

TWO years on, and not only has the penny dropped about local property pricing and comparative values, but the market overall has dropped too.

GREENBANKS, a detached house on Cork’s Well Road, went up for sale in late 2005, just as the housing boom hit its peak — but despite spiralling prices, it took the market by surprise.

A NEW green route walking path, through woods and along the glenside of the Donnybrook stream, will link the house scheme The Vicarage with the very heart of Douglas village in Cork, and, almost coincidentally, make it an easy stroll to the suburban village’s two churches. And schools. And shops, bars and everything else.

YOU get ‘all the fruit’ thrown in, at Glebe House Gardens, an upmarket niche townhouse scheme behind the architectural timepiece Emmet Square, in West Cork’s Clonakilty.

MORE trees vicar?

WHEREVER the name came from, Carmen Lawn is sure to be a success. Located in Upper Rochestown, the big detached houses are part of a 55-house scheme within a few minutes drive to the link road.

JAMESMOUNT is a scheme of large, detached houses in Upper Rochestown in Cork built on the grounds of Jamesmount House. It’s close to the grounds of Garryduff Sports Centre and five minutes from the link road — a great location in the southern suburbs.

SHE has sold numbers 3, 4 and 6 and now Pacelli Nolan is looking to add number 2 Westwood Gardens to her list of four out of a total of six in Kinsale.

NOT surprisingly, this superbly renovated and extended house at Courtmacsherry, Co Cork, carries a hefty price tag.

GLEBE House Gardens lay down a tiny marker for bigger things to follow for Clonakilty in West Cork.

BACK to back, these houses at the Daffodil Fields at Poulavone, Ballincollig, offer a safe playing space for children, says Michael Downey of ERA Downey McCarthy Murphy.

THE memory of a host of golden daffodils on the grounds of Poulavone House, Ballincollig, is now just that and in their place is a cluster of houses called, appropriately enough, Daffodil Fields.

Rose Martin says Killeens is a case of Lios is more.

IN the dwindling light of last November, Compass Quay in Kinsale was launched by developers Fleming and joint agents SWS Property Services Kinsale and Cohalan Downing and Associates.

Tommy Barker profiles a property mixing a historical past with a location in the heart of a cosmopolitan town.

THIS is a Kinsale property through and through. Designed by Richard Rainey and built by local consortium, MMD Construction, whose first outing this was, Westwood Gardens is an attractive and low-scale scheme with a Scandinavian touch.

HIGH up over the sráidbhaile that is Riverstick, Hillcrest is well named.

SPRING is sprung, the grass is riz and it’s a splendid time to sell a property in the Daffodil Fields.

THE early birds into An Caislean, a house development in Ballincollig, made money from the start.

FAIR CITY actress Rachel Sarah Murphy is selling her home — although it is nowhere close to the capital, where she earns her daily crust.

A BEEHIVE is how the newest residential scheme in Kinsale, Compass Quay, looked last week.

DEVELOPERS Frinailla are firing on many cylinders, with apartment schemes selling quickly in Midleton and Ballincollig in Co Cork, and with major residential and commercial plans in the planning process for Grand Parade and Watercourse Road in the city centre.

THERE’S a floor plan to suit lively and growing families on offer at a niche house launch in Glanmire in Cork.

A PRIME site sale which went astray thanks to a mapping error is headed in the right direction once more.

THE lands that formed part of the old St Joseph's Monastery in Blarney St in Cork are slowly being covered by houses and beginning to form one of the most unusual integrated developments in the city, despite the fact that planning permission was given before the implementation of Part V of the Planning Act 2000.

LOOSELY modelled on an adjoining mill building, the house Millstream is a modern take on old designs.

SKIRMISHES during the 1601 Battle of Kinsale took place in and around the wooded hills of Brownsmills, a literal backwater a mile outside the harbour tourist town.

WITH one development starting, and one going into the finishing phase, house buyers at both ends of the spectrum have product to select from in seaside Kinsale.

FROM the fanfare of the initial opening, the Admiral’s Walk scheme, at Kinsale, Co Cork is showing healthy sales since its October opening, say joint agents Lisney and Sheehy Bros.