Many eyes have been trained recently on the grounds of this new-to-market large family home, Rockville, at the very city end of the Boreenmanna Road, not much more than 500 metres from Cork’s City Hall.

A WALK by the beach at Fountainstown years ago sealed the deal for a young couple — they spotted the house they really, really wanted. 

IF YOU buy the quite-grandly titled Wilton House in Cork’s Bishopstown/Wilton suburbs, you’ll be spending more on doing it up.

Trish Dromey visits a house which retains many of its original Victorian features.

Like the buses coming in clusters, homes and resales are fast and furious at Rathmore Lawn, off Cork city’s South Douglas Road a spot near the Briar Rose Bar, and due to host a neighbours’ street party at the end of this September.

The sea is off in the distance, visible down the rolling landscape and fields from is this fine family dormer home, at south Cork’s coastal Ballinluska.

A turning tide of market confidence could see a rebuild, or even one, two or three new homes, on the grounds of this seaside older-style bungalow called Chusan, a stone’s skip from the Ferry Road at Fountainstown.

A Military Cross awarded to an Irish chaplain for bravery during the Second World War goes under the hammer in Cork tonight.

BRANDON at Kilcoolishal, Glanmire offers half an acre of sheltered, mature gardens and the space to trade either up or down.

The setting, the sea, the sunny aspect, the swimming holes beneath the sloping terraced grounds - just some of the features that combine to make Ceann Mhara a very special buy.

Pouladuff Road, Cork city €280,000

Lost in last week’s Cover Story four pages coverage of the Douglas, Cork house called Glencorron, was the all-essential ‘fact panel’ - now seen here - which gives the low-down on this fine suburban home, for sale this month with agent Tom Woodward of Woodwards.

Douglas Road, Cork

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

Sq m: 70 (750 Sq ft)

Size: Sq m 184 (2,000 sq ft)

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country

Golfing aficionados with an eye for art will be presented with an unique opportunity on November 13.

We view a selection of starter homes from around the country

We scan a selection of trading up homes around the country.

Welcome to Deauville — Cork style.

CARRIGNAVAR, CORK €495,000

MONEY wasn’t spared when most of the big, detached houses were being built in Wheatfields, near Cork’s Carrigaline.

WILTON, CORK €220,000

Douglas, Cork €250,000

This Regency Carlton House Desk made 85,000 at Mealy's-Christie's sale in Mount Congreve.

Sun-room extension overlooks mature gardens, reports Tommy Barker

Affordable period property has guide price of €120,000, Tommy Barker reports

Australia’s government ordered an emergency arbitration hearing today after Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet amid a bitter dispute with striking workers, stranding passengers around the world.

A Qantas superjumbo has taken off from Sydney en route to London on the first passenger flight for the airline's A380s since a mid-air engine explosion earlier this month.

A BIRD and a bolt of lightning were the latest problems to strike Qantas, the airline said yesterday, causing the fourth flight turnaround since an engine blowout on an Airbus superjumbo caused a global safety scare.

A bird and a bolt of lightning have struck two separate Qantas planes and caused more problems for the Australian airline.

A Qantas Boeing 747 jet bound for Argentina returned to Sydney, Australia, after experiencing a suspected electrical fault, the airline said today.

Europe’s air safety authority ordered airlines today to conduct more tests on the type of Rolls-Royce engine that failed in an Airbus A380.

SIX bedrooms, 0.6 of an acre of shrubbed gardens, and a guide price of €600,000 – not a bad sequence on offer at the big 2,500 sq ft family bungalow Clonard, on the edge of Kinsale town.

THERE are three-bed semis, and three-bed semis – and within that broad spectrum, No 1 Adelaide Place, Cork is in a niche of its own.

IT’S known as Millionaire’s Row locally and it’s easy to see why — Kilcoolishal in Cork’s Glounthaune is a secret little enclave on the rim of the city.

PALMDALE cornered a local market niche as far back as the mid-1990s. This detached house was an early example of the wisdom of building on available corner garden sites.

THIS Regency-style redbrick, one of only a dozen or so in a quiet enclave off Grange Hill, Cork, is back on the market, following its withdrawal last year.

ARCHITECT-designed in the 1970s, Redwood is a detached family home of 2,000 sq ft, on a 0.8 acre site, and with scope galore.

RED-BRICK Georgian-style, the detached houses at Kingsford in Cork hit a certain style button for those who like their homes with a bit of balance and symmetry.

THE jungle drums have been at work since the For Sale sign went up in the last week on Leenane - something to do with the Woolhara address, perhaps?

Tommy Barker views a property that offers the best of both worlds.