DESPITE its rather desolate condition, No 2 Alexandra Terrace on Cork’s Military Hill, could be lived in immediately, says agent Andrew Moore.

PRICES in the St Luke’s Cross area of Cork are rising as steeply as some of its approach hills. The genteel area is back in favour with the well-heeled, who are coming back in comfortable droves to the period houses of this handy, hillside location not even a mile from the city core.