A huge database of plant life histories gathered over almost 50 years and being launched today will be freely available to fast-track crucial conservation research.

On Cork City’s Blackrock Road, Dundanion House has had commercial uses for 50 years, but would be a ‘grand’ home, says Tommy Barker.

Built as a mansion home for celebrated architect Sir Thomas Deane, Cork’s suburban Dundanion House is an absolutely immaculate large period house which has had commercial uses for the past half-century.

CORK City’s oldest bank building, and one of its very finest architectural statements, is a New Year sale offer at €1.2 million.

For the first time in 160 years, an imposing building which dominates Killarney, Co Kerry, and which once had more than 1,000 residents, was unoccupied last night.

Drumcora dates back to early 1800s. Now its guide price has been cut to €495,000, writes Tommy Barker

It’s the end of an era as former Dunlop social club Drumcora House is sold on, says Tommy Barker