House deals in the €700,000-€800,000 price bracket have been agreed in Cork’s environs in recent days, for an immaculate Victorian semi-d on the Blackrock Road, and again at Spur Hill for a 3,250 sq ft modern home on three acres: both houses had featured extensively in these pages, and found bidders and buyers very smartly.

JOURNEY’S End towers above its setting in more ways than one — the extra-sized family home on a large plot is on the very uppermost site in Towering Heights, Tower village close to Blarney.

Tommy Barker discovers No 3 Landscape Terrace was furnished magnificently by the late Bernadette Murphy.

Rose Martin visits a trophy home with an irresistibly attractive price tag.

CROWDS of people turned up last weekend for the showhouse opening of the Lavallin development in Whitechurch, Co Cork.

“CASHEL” is aptly-named. It’s a strong redoubt in the Cork countryside with high views over a number of townlands. Like the early ring-forts, the site is everything.

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

THIS house has to have one of the nicest settings in the Blarney area, and it should only get better.

VILLAGE life passes by the window of Cushla, which is in the heart of Tower, in Co Cork.

THE prospect of a ready made tree-house might swing a trading-up decision for young viewers, but the rest of this property at Coolflugh, Tower, Co Cork should tempt the mammies and daddies too.