IT’S quite possible to guess from the colourfully landscaped outside front yard, but No 82 Coopers Grange is not your standard townhouse.

Most of the homes at Limeworth — whether self-build or otherwise — have deserved their ‘luxury’ description, writes Tommy Barker.

It’s more sweetness and light, than briars, at the family home No 1, 1 Sweetbriar Lane, just at the very city end of the road into Ballincollig from the Poulevone Roundabout.

Built to accommodate a large family back in 2001, this detached six-bed house has done its duty, and with a nest emptying at a rate, it’s now being offered for sale by its down-sizing owners.

Hot on the heels of a super-swift sale agreed on a detached 1,600 sq ft four-bed home at Ballincollig’s Greenfields which came to market this month guiding €470,000, estate agent Norma Healy of Sherry FitzGerald has another four-bed in the locale. 

There’s a good, westerly aspect to the back garden of No 5, The Avenue, out in Ballincollig’s Coolroe Heights.

 

The address is Newgrange, but the only thing subterranean about No 14 is its basement level car-park.

Come west along for choice, says estate agent Peter Skuse of two quite different family home offers, with €50k in the price difference, and which he has just lined up in Ballincollig.

Muskerry Estate “is still the original and still the best-located estate in the now thriving town of Ballincollig,” says Con Nagle of Global Properties, who is busy doing viewings on two three-bed semis here.

It’s moving on time for the owners of No 44, The Close, Coolroe Meadows who, despite extending to the back and adding an attic extensions, seem to have outgrown this family home. 

It’s open viewing time this month out in Ballincollig, Cork, with agent Norma Healy, who had lots through the doors of No 12 Chestnut Crescent in the Ovens Classes Lake development on Saturday.

The benefits of being mid-terraced are less heat loss through walls, and you probably get the same floor area as a semi-d or end of terrace home, but for less money.

Size: 184 sq m (1,980 sq ft)

Sq m: 232 (2,500 sq ft)

Sq m: 69 (750 sq ft)

Sq m: 112 (1,200 sq ft)

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

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

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

Dunkettle, Cork €425,000

It took 300 years for the second woman to be initiated into an Irish Freemason lodge, but now it appears the floodgates are to open.

GLANMIRE, Cork €475,000

For only the second time ever, a woman has been accepted into an Irish freemason lodge — exactly 300 years after the first.

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

BALLINCOLLIG, CORK €195,000

MODEL FARM ROAD €895,000

A STOVE manufacturer, forced to put half its workforce on a three-day week, hopes new energy-efficiency laws will be an invaluable lifeline for the plant.

AS NEIGHBOURS from hell go, Mary McGrath doesn’t quite cut the mustard.