GET in the gate and up to the front door, and you’ll be hooked — so hopes estate agent Victoria Murphy of Hill View, a coastal region Kilbrittain home west of Cork city.

WELL, yes, they do build them the way they used to - sometimes. Anyone who has ever bemoaned the drop in building and finishing standards can take heart at this Kinsale, Co Cork, home, constructed 10 years ago for the long haul.

IT is called the Hermitage - but it’s a classic misnomer. Andrew Carlos Clarke is not, never was and has no intention of ever being a hermit.

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.

Tommy Barker explores a Glengarriff home which was once a church.

Number 6 Ramparts Manor is about four years old, in pristine condition and is being sold completely furnished.

FAIR CITY actress Rachel Sarah Murphy is selling her home — although it is nowhere close to the capital, where she earns her daily crust.

BALLINADEE is a quiet little village close to Kinsale and is probably best known for its life-sized grotto - the Marian shrine of Ballinspittle is just a few miles away.

DESPITE economic gloom, there’s a strong market still for €1-million-plus homes in Cork city.

SKIRMISHES during the 1601 Battle of Kinsale took place in and around the wooded hills of Brownsmills, a literal backwater a mile outside the harbour tourist town.

WILL a rocker come to roost in a Cobh house with a role in Ireland’s maritime past?

BUILT

NICE garden – shame about the house. This property at Summercove, Kinsale, was the abode of three bachelors for some years and while their taste ran to gardening, it stopped at the front door.