WHILE not as rare as hen’s teeth, sales at the Hayfield estate are very few and far between.

THE PADDOCKS — where children may safely play and prices can gallop.

SERIAL decorators, dreamers, tyre-kickers and even buyers, will get their pre-Christmas day out at Old Quarter, Ballincollig.

THIS discreet crescent at Douglas Close is an advertisement for grown-up living and the houses are perfect professional properties.

WHILE there are just three houses in Hayfield left to sell, the first of the resales has just come up with Mark Kelly of Hamilton Osborne King.

BACK on the market after its sale fell through, is number 4, Tirol Avenue, The Paddocks, one of those south Cork estates with built-in status and where houses usually sell very well.

Rose Martin is impressed by a new scheme in Castletownshend.

NEO-Victorian, with a really high specification and a location on Blackrock Road: it all adds up to the Lindville package.

THIS estate of three-year-old houses in Glounthaune is not, as the name suggests, next to the harbour, but rather towers over it.

TICKING away nicely, sales are almost at the one-third mark for the first new development in the picturesque village of Castletownshend in Co Cork.

Rose Martin

IT was the bee’s knees when it first opened and it even won a few awards for its architect, Roddy Hogan, who also lives there himself.

ONE of architect Roddy Hogan’s distinctive house designs, The Spires in Cobh has an elegant collection of lemon-yellow houses high above the town.

CASTLETOWNSHEND is the little village which was home to one half of the Somerville and Ross team, writers of the Irish RM stories.

PART of the award winning estate designed by architect, Roddy Hogan, The Paddocks is one of the more sought-after addresses in Douglas, Cork.