There could be site potential as well as what’s immediately on offer at this good, stout country home at Granig, near Minane Bridge in premium south county Cork farmland.

This quaint old cottage has spectacular views over Cork Harbour and sits on a surprisingly large, private site.

Tommy Barker says imagination is the key when it comes to doing something magical with this derelict chalet/house near Crosshaven.

And the last shall be first? The highest numbered house in Baltimore Lawn, No 20, is the first one you meet on the way into this niche, cul de sac park off Cork city’s Douglas Road.

Location: Fennells Bay, Cork, €450,000

Upmarket four-bed is destined for viewings as the Cork market picks up Tommy Barker reports.

Sq m: 102 (1,100 sq ft)

Sq m: 83 (900 sq ft)

Size: 345 (3,700 sq ft)

Tommy Barker uncovers a green oasis in middle of Cork surburbia

A house near The Lough has a lot of potential, says Rose Martin

IT’S appropriate that the views down from 9 Ard Chuain include container ships serenely cruising below, on their way to or from Tivoli docks in Cork harbour — after all, lots of this house’s furniture, floors and fittings came to Cork by container ship.

CARRIGALINE, CORK €149,000

This three-bed home is close to amenities, Tommy Barker reports

CORK CITY €95,000

OVENS, CORK €199,000

THROW a stone out the door or front garden of Holmville, at 92 Sunday’s Well in Cork city, and there’s the chance you’ll hit a medic, or one of their families.

IT has a high private screen of mature hedgerow and Annesgrove, at 33 Glasheen Road and Hartland’s Avenue near UCC in Cork is a fine ‘moving inwards’ prospect.

Good location, great value

A SUBSTANTIALLY reduced three-bed at 31 Willowbank on Blackrock’s Church Road is now on the market at €310,000, through TJ Cronin of Irish and European.

THE original owners of 22, Donnybrook Cottage, Donnybrook in Cork probably wouldn’t recognise the interior now. In the last year it’s been completely remodelled and renovated.

THERE’s a broad sweep of lawn between the road and this lovely two-storey on Maryborough Hill. Almost at the top and looking onto the groomed greens of Cork’s Douglas Golf Club, Garvarnie is one of four hillside houses on large sites in this high-demand residential area.

SALE agreed last year, but a victim of a selling chain that resulted in a vital link breaking down, so the six-bedroom, detached house, Brackendale, on a quarter-acre Douglas site, in Cork, is being re-offered, at a reduced price.

AT the asking price of €285,000, this detached bungalow on the Curraheen Road in Cork is not bad value, considering its potential.

TWO four-bed houses, at opposite ends of Cork city, are for sale through TJ Cronin of Irish and European at the moment.

PROPERTY is moving on the west of Cork city — recent weeks have seen two strong sales agreed in the teeth of the slowest property market in decades.

BUILT on what was once productive market garden lands, the six-bedroom house Brackendale is now in a bit of a property hot-spot.

AN understated location tucked off the Model Farm Road, Kenley has a mix of houses in an area that’s accessible to schools, shopping centres and Cork city’s main institutions.

Rose Martin says this property could be just what the doctor ordered.

OUT of the way of the Waterfall Road/Curraheen Road rat-run in Cork, this house at 8 Halldene has a lot going for it.

THERE are a number of advantages in living in a bungalow — no stairs, for one, but perhaps the most important one is that you’re usually not overlooked. And why? Because all the other houses around are mostly bungalows.

THE key selling point with this three-bedroom house in Friar’s Walk, Cork is the size of its garden.

QUIET cul-de-sac overlooking a green area is a bit of a brochure mantra — but it’s there for a reason.

FIVE minutes drive to the city centre and a brisk 15 minute walk, No 35 Presentation Place in Greenmount, Cork, also has a little something extra — a big site to the side.

IT mightn’t be the biggest or the brashest house on the Model Farm Road area, but Mount Nephin has got off to a flying start since it hit the market last weekend.

YOU can get your sea legs at Seaways, an adaptable family home overlooking Cork’s inner harbour at Monkstown.

NEAT as a new pin and with a fantastic garden to the back, this detached house on the Old Cork Road in Carrigaline should stir trader-upper interest.

THIS time of year, the prospect of a big old farmhouse with land and stables is a very attractive proposition indeed, as days are long and montbretia light up the hedgerows.

TWO detached properties, at opposite sides of the city, come in this week with guide prices in the high six hundreds.

BUYING into the future is the thing here at Jim’s Cross, Sraleigh, Waterfall.

THREE storey and three bedrooms, this town house at 3, Manor Lawn, is part of a new development at Ovens, Co Cork, and is in the vanguard of re-sales.