THERE’S been a steady run of sales in Cork’s unusually named Pic du Jer, a network estate of semi-ds built in the mid 1900s in Ballinlough: it’s called after a high, 1,000m peak called Pic du Jer on the edge of Lourdes in France, which can be summited by a 100 year old funicular rail carriage.

AND on the western side of the city, in the little village of Kerry Pike, a four-bed cottage, Alverna, is just on offer at €235,000.

VERY much the original of the species, Alverna, or no 5 Woodleigh, is a house certain to get an expensive makeover — the location demands it.