ONE of Cork city’s finest period homes, time-wrapped and time warped Lotabeg House, on 36 acres in Tivoli, has finally come to market two years after a hugely publicised auction of its contents that attracted 7,000 viewers to the property, over three days.

Tommy Barker on a unique three-bed townhouse in Cork’s Silversprings

AND they’re off. The first new homes launch of 2005 around Cork city is a batch of just under 100 homes at Ashmount Court, Silversprings.

WHAT do you do with an old quarry when the digging has stopped? Dig a bit further, and then build up on it.